HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

Compatibility
Known Compatibility Exceptions from HP-UX 11.0 to 11i
Chapter 12 231
Software Distributor Reduces Amount of Information
from Program swlist
This change improves the performance of some “swlist” options.
Extraneous data is no longer displayed and listing of bundles in a depot
shows only bundles. Applications that depend on the old format and
behavior will have to be modified.
Software Distributor Changes Behavior with
Unknown Attributes
This change allows packagers to use new attributes in their software
packages without requiring SD to know the attribute. The”swpackage”
program will no longer print error messages when an unrecognized
attribute is encountered. You must be careful when naming attributes
because typographical errors will no longer be reported.
libc qsort() Algorithm Change
This change improves performance. This enhancement of qsort() sorts
"tied" elements differently than the previous implementation.
Well-behaved applications are not affected, since the manpage warns
that the order in the output of two items that compare as equal is
unpredictable.
libc SYSTEM_ID callbraph Change
Applications that have been linked to the archival version of libc and
also have any shared libraries linked to the application may fail because
the callbraph of libc has changed.
NOTE Linking an application with a shared library that depends on an archive
library is NOT a supported configuration. Applications linked in this way
do not qualify as well behaved because this configuration is NOT
supported.