the installing-over-2.0 bug

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> 
> As I understand it the problem is that ld-linux.so.2 and libc.so.6 are
> interdependent, so if one is from 2.0 and the other is from 2.1, you lose. 
> Are these the only libraries like that, or is libdl affected also?  In other
> words, will the problem be fixed if I have the install sequence do
> 
> install libdl-2.X.Y.so
> ln -s libdl-2.X.Y.so libdl.so.N
> 
> ...bunch of other stuff...
> 
> install libc-2.X.Y.so
> install ld-2.X.Y.so
> ln -s libc-2.X.Y.so libc.so.6T
> ln -s ld-2.X.Y.so ld-linux.so.2T
> unT libc.so.6T ld-linux.so.2T
> 
> or is it necessary to install libdl at the very end with libc and ld.so?
> (unT is a tiny C program that chops T's off the end of file names.)
> 

It is very tricky. I don't bother with it. I just put ldconfig.c in
elf. glibc takes care of the rest.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)