Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail
From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP error, what does it mean ?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:26:14 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
Lines: 28
Message-ID: <411mbm$e24@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <aak2.808649150@ra.msstate.edu>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>
>After installing tcsh as my default shell, I started getting this error.
>And so did a friend of mine with an account on this machine.
>
>ld.so: warning: libc.so.2.1: minor version < 2 expected, using it anyway
>
>I am not sure what this means and how serious it is. Any help would be
>appreciated. Thanks.
It's a bit misleading but benign. It means you've been installing a
tcsh binary that has been compiled on a newer system with an updated
shared library (2.2-current in this particular case), but try to run
it on an older o/s release. Since the minor number update only
indicates an added function in the shlib, success or failure simply
depends on the question whether your newer binary is using just the
added functionality or not.
Btw., i forgot why the minor # has been bumped. And, it has been
agreed on to bump a minor # only at most once between the official
releases, so it will remain the same until 2.2 will be released, even
if more functions will be added. (People running -current are
supposed to care for theirselves.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)