Re: OFFTOPIC: glibc 2.0.5 strangeness?

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 22:58:14 -0000


>Why some of my old binaries (compiled under libc5.4.34) now
>requires libc.so.5 AND libc.so.6? ldd reports that. Certainly, they don't

Shared libraries can themselves pull in other dependencies (using DT_NEEDED).
One of the libraries that you've linked with has been rebuilt for libc6 and
the application is still on libc5, or vice versa.

p.