>>>>> "Hubert" == Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:

    Hubert> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> Why didn't we bump libc version and remove all the renames' when 
    >> we switched from aout to elf? Aren't the library formats different? 

    Hubert> Maybe because we aren't on ELF on (nearly) all platforms yet? 
    Hubert> But that's just a guess.

  Is there any reason to have library version numbers the same across
platforms? 
  It sure would have made life easier to live without COMPAT_AOUT if we
had bumped the major versions on ELF stuff!!!

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