[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?

[James Lee]

On 24/03/09, 16:13:24, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re: 
[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?:

> I think we're going to have to make a nasty 'exception' for this.
> I think we're going to have the package have the old one in
> /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so

> but have a forced SONAME for
> /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so.1

> and on TOP of that, I think our build machines will have to "break" the
> package, and do

> rm /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so
> ln -s libnet.so.1 /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so

It's very, very nasty because it will break anyone else trying to build,
either in ignorance of your hack or if trying to run and build on the
same machine.


Has no one made an elf header editor?




James.