svn commit: r306312 - head

[Marcel Moolenaar]

Author: marcel
Date: Sun Sep 25 16:39:18 2016
New Revision: 306312
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306312

Log:
  Relocatable object files are renamed from *.So to *.pico
  
  Reminder by:	imp@

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Sun Sep 25 16:30:29 2016	(r306311)
+++ head/UPDATING	Sun Sep 25 16:39:18 2016	(r306312)
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12
 	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
 	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20160924:
+	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
+	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
+	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
+	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
+
 20160918:
 	GNU rcs has been turned off by default.  It can (temporarily) be built
 	again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf.