Re: Shared objects renaming patch .so -> .pico

[Antti Kantee <pooka%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:45:14PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To avoid conflicts between shared objects and final library names
> libXX.so, it has been suggested to make objects use the .pico
> extension instead of .so currently.
> 
> Here follow a patch against bsd.lib.mk which does so, for review and
> tests.
> 
> I already tested some archs and `build.sh release' does not show any
> problem for alpha, amd64 and i386; and some other ones are in
> progress.  I then booted amd64 and i386 install cdroms (under qemu),
> and updated my amd64 workstation ... no glitch so far.
> 
> Comments ?

Did you try update builds or non-update builds with a dirty objdir?

Might warrant something in UPDATING if e.g. .so's are left hanging
behind.