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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and friends), ...
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:40:57
Message-Id: a97a6453-7b8e-40b4-9d3c-b8d42d947237@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and friends), ... by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 18/09/17 16:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 14:28:37 CEST schrieb M. J. Everitt:
3 >> <snip>
4 >>
5 >> Would a virtual help any? Probably overlooking a good number of factors,
6 >> but wasn't mentioned yet ...
7 >>
8 > So far I don't see how... Virtual would mean that the same functionality is
9 > provided by different packages, and that they can be exchanged at runtime.
10 > However, for rpc there are different library *names* (sonames) to be linked,
11 > and for nls the soversion is different... Even if the headers were identical,
12 > that wouldnt work :/
13 >
14 Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. So you'd even need a common API
15 (header, etc) to be able to do some fudgery linking the lib names even.
16
17 MJE

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