Solution to pine/pico install, libcom_err.so.3 dependency

Matt Temple mht at research.dfci.harvard.edu
Tue Dec 2 17:12:12 UTC 2003


Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Matt Temple wrote:
> 
>>
>> Further, I believe that this is only an issue if there are functions in
>> the "real" libcom_err.so.3 that aren't in libcom_err.so.2 that are 
>> called by Pine and Pico.
> 
> 
> Actually, it will be an issue if there are any missing symbols, or if 
> the functions provided by libcom_err.so.2 take a different number of 
> arguments, or arguments in a different order, or arguments which are 
> pointers to different sized structures.
> 
			<< snip >>

> 
> Probably because you aren't doing any Kerberos authentication, so the 
> functions in the library are never used.

I'll keep this offline for a moment.   There is a RedHat 
krb5-libs-1.2.7-14 rpm that has libcom_err.so.3 in it
If it is installed with the --oldpackage option
and a link is made in /lib to /usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3.0,
is this going to break anything?

I see some arguments about there being two libraries, but no resolution.


					Matt


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