[ksh93-integration-discuss] some questions about ksh93 integration

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Aug 23 17:30:11 PDT 2006


Roland Mainz wrote:
> Therefore we choose the solution of "merging" both libraries - we take
> the ksh93 version of libcmd and the Solaris libcmd and make one library
> from it, avoiding major problems with other consolidations and even
> honor binary backwards-compatibility to older versions of libcmd.so

You can preserve binary compatibility without doing a full merge.
Move the old one to libsuncmd.so.1 and then add filter entries to
the mapfile for the ksh libcmd.so.1 to redirect users there.
If nothing else it's easier for others to build their own ksh
binaries and retain this compatibility, since they won't need to
copy in the Sun libcmd sources.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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