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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: shlib_minor from 0 to 1 Message-ID: <1994Jul14.232627.13921@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <774194386.AA09311@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 23:26:27 GMT Lines: 31 This whole article is completely irelevant IMHO. I am currently running FreeBSD 1.1.5 and still frequently use XFree86 2.0 that was compiled under FreeBSD 1.1 with dynamic libs as well as the programs rxvt and fvwm. Until I recompiled everything all my binaries were linked against libs 1.0 and worked fine when I installed the 1.1 libs and deleted all the 1.0 libs. There are no symlinks here. :) I also still have some binaries in my /usr/local/bin tree that are from (in chronological order) 386bsd 0.1 w/pk2.4, FreeBSD versions 1.0e, 1.02 and 1.1. They all work just dandy. I daily use the rzsz binaries that I compiled under 386bsd 0.1 w/pk2.4 (If it ain't broke why fix it ;) As far as I know FreeBSD 1.1.5 is fully 100% backward compatible with all previous versions. The only gotchas' are in trying to run a 1.1.5 compiled program on a 1.1r system and some minor changes in the passwd db routines (these passwd changes do not prevent binaries from running but you might see anoying messages on the console for statically linked programs from prior to 1.1r that access the passwd file.) Steve P.S. I've worn a pointy hat often enough that I can say. "Test things out first on your own before posting!" ;) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------