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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: shlib_minor from 0 to 1
Date: 25 Jul 1994 19:05:26 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <310fa1$c76@cleese.apana.org.au> newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes:

>In article <3087d6$abn@quagga.ru.ac.za>, Geoff Rehmet (csgr@cs.ru.ac.za) wrote:

>So:  We have a 1.1release kernel with 1.1.5.1 binaries running software
>from both OS and shared library revisions with ease.  To the best
>of my knowledge, your statement about 1.1 systems having trouble 
>with 1.1.5 binaries is false (we haven't been getting any unexplained
>behaviour here, anyway!)

When I said that 1.1.5.1 binaries would not run on 1.1 was that a 1.1
system with lib*.so.1.0 would not be able to run 1.1.5 binaries, which
would require lib*.so.1.1.

Maybe I should have made my original posting a bit more clear.

What you are saying is correct.

Geoff.
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