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Re: question about upgrading
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: "cg at cragalaska dot com" <cg at cragalaska dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:57:20 +0930
- Subject: Re: question about upgrading
- References: <200506241339.58147."cg@cragalaska.com">
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:39:57PM -0800, cg@cragalaska.com wrote:
> /usr/lib/libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so
> /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.14.90.0.5.so
>
> I'm about to update to the latest release of binutils, how do I create these
> two files but with the 2.16.1.so suffix(or whatever it may make)?
These will be created if you configure with --enable-shared. If you
don't use --enable-shared, then the new shared libs are not needed.
> Will these new files replace/accompany the previous two?
> I'm thinking accompany.
Definitely. No attempt is made to keep libbfd.so backwards compatible,
so if you replace libbfd.so, you will need to recompile everything that
uses it.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre