__fpclassifyd problem

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sun Oct 19 15:13:42 PDT 2003


On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:05:29PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> >This symbol is defined in libc.so.5.  One way you can see this problem
> >is if you are running a 4.x binary that links to libm.so.2 on a 5.x
> >system, because libm has the same version number in 5.x but is not
> >binary compatible.  So the 4.x binary links to libc.so.4 and
> >libm.so.2, and the latter is actually a 5.x library that expects to
> >have __fpclassifyd resolved by linking with libc.so.5.  Is it the case
> >on your system that you have old 4.x binaries installed?
> >
> >Kris
> 
> We need to resolve this before 5.2 in some fashion.  It looks like the
> easiest thing to do is bump libm.  Is this advisable?
> 

I sent in an email *along time ago* about this type 
of problem.  See the fallout due to revision 1.24
of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c.  IMHO, all shared libraries
versions should have been bumped in going from 4.x to
5.0. 

-- 
Steve


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