abiversions not working correctly for ld.so on MIPS-Linux

[Andreas Jaeger]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 11:03:08PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The trouble here results from inconsistent treatment of ld.so vs lib*.so
> in the Versions files and associated magic.  Arguably `ld {' should appear
> in elf/Versions instead of `ld.so {' just as `libc {' appears instead
> of `libc.so {'.  The soversions.i -> Versions.all processing doesn't make
> ld.so any kind of special case, so the intermediate processing produces
> a line "ld : GLIBC_2.0 GLIBC_2.2" instead of "ld.so : GLIBC_2.0 GLIBC_2.2",
> which fails to match the "ld.so {" section.
> 
> I think the best solution would be to clean up all the magic so that it
> expects to see "ld {" instead of "ld.so {", just like for every other *.so
> there is (which all happen to be lib*.so).  I haven't looked into the
> issues there might be with this.

I'm going to see what needs to be done for this now.

Thanks,
Andreas
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