From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Subject: Re: Unsharable Shared Libraries. Date: 27 Feb 1993 04:45:06 GMT
In article <1993Feb26.164100.23994@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
geyer@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Helmut Geyer) writes:
>
> When a completely changed library (i. e. not only a new version, but
> a new release) is installed no binaries using the old shared
> libraries will work with the new ones in SunOS either.
That depends on *exactly* what changes. Under SunOS (and AIX 3),
shared libraries are dynamically linked, so the *only* thing which
would require relinking is a change to a functional interface or global
variable. Both would also require recompiling some code.
Linux shared libraries are far inferior; trying to deny that is absurd.
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