On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On 17 Dec 1999 14:49:20 -0800 
>  cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) wrote:
> 
>  > > 	XFree86
>  > > 	system libraries/binaries
>  > > 	pkgsrc (binary packages)
>  > > 
>  > > Why can't we recompile them all?  We already do most of that, I
>  > > believe.
>  > 
>  > For correctness, it's not just a matter of recompiling them.  it's a
>  > matter of going through and bumping the major numbers.
> 
> IIRC, Solaris is still at libc.so.1 *FOR THIS VERY REASON*.
> 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> 

Hello Michael,

I apologize in advance if this a stupid question, but is there something
inherently wrong with having two C libraries??

On AIX, IBM has a libc.a and a libc_r.a. The libc_r.a library has the
thread safe functions while the libc.a library does not. Programs needing
thread safe functions are compiled against libc_r.a, and programs that
do not need a thread safe library are compiled against libc.a.

  possum:bstark$ uname -a
  AIX possum 2 4 00087028A600
  possum:bstark$ cd /usr/ccs/lib
  possum:bstark$ ls -l libc.a libc_r.a
  -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin      1748898 May 25 1999  libc.a
  -r--r--r--   1 bin      bin      1840193 May 25 1999  libc_r.a
  possum:bstark$ 


Regards,

Brian

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