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

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Dec 2 05:01:11 UTC 2003


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.

When so versions change, believe that the changes are incompatible, even 
if symbols actually resolve.  Somewhere in there is a SEGV waiting to 
happen.

> That being said, I've been using Pine/Pico ever since I got the Fedora 
> release employing the link as described above with not-a-crash or
> other problem.

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





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