[ale] Back-compatible libs question

[jmmills at telocity.com (John Mills)]

Thanks -

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Chris Fowler wrote:

> 1 Download libc5 source and compile.

Unless someone comes up with a better offer, this looks worth trying. I
have no idea if it's workable - we're looking back a couple of generations
here.

> 2 or create a link that looks like this.
>   /lib/libc.so.5 -> /lib/libc.so.6

Doesn't look so good to me - if that was a solution, why provide the
back-compatible libs in RH6.2? We were only one generation away, then.

Regards -
 John Mills


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