[2917] in Release_Engineering
Re: layering bites back...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 13 13:12:20 1992
From: lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:11:53 -0400
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>, rel-eng@MIT.EDU, jon@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: [2915]
Reply-To: lwvanels@MIT.EDU
We don't replace the vendor's shared X11R3 libraries, which live in /usr/lib,
but instead install our own R4 libraries in /usr/athena/lib/shared. Since
we couldn't be sure that our libraries would be 100% compatable with what
third parties apps would be expecting to find, and because of `vosap', the
AIX libraries were left as is.
Also, I have heard that some vendors ship their applications statically
linked, to prevent possible version skew problems. Unfortunately, AIX does
not provide any sort of version system for their shared libraries, unlike Sun.
-Lucien
