On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday, July 07, 2011 02:36:10 AM Allan McRae wrote: >> On 07/07/11 10:02, Baho Utot wrote: >>> >>> Still the best way is to build/repackage but the link works as weel. >> >> The worst you can do while symlinking libraries is entirely screw your >> system... just ask the people who could not use pacman to extract .xz >> packages anymore after symlinking liblzma... >> >> Library sonames change for a reason. > > In this case it would only screwup postfix. I am not talking of whole sale > symlinking libs only to temporay fix issues like this while the package is > being fixed. ... but ... why? when it takes a whole 5-10 minutes to rebuild? you have *no idea* why they bumped the soname -- the fact that it works is pure chance/luck -- whatever changed just hasn't been given the opportunity to crash 'n burn you yet, because (IIRC) said function(s) havn't been called, or said data structure(s) haven't been used/manipulated/read ... *yet*. if it does work, you could be clobbering random areas of heap/stack depending on how everything lines up in the end. ... this is bad idea, bad recommendation, pre-now, now, always, post-always ... don't do it. ever ... ever. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html#AEN135 ... if you care *at all* about you mail or <insert important data> that is ;-) C Anthony
