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8.4.1: Compatibility with libvtblc

In order not to break compatibility with Albrecht's original libvtblc `make install' will install a symlinks which redirect `LIBDIR/libvtblc.a' to `LIBDIR/libftvt.a' and `LIBDIR/libvtblc.so' to `LIBDIR/libftvt.so'. As the calling conventions and names of the library functions have been changed, this alone would not suffice. Therefore `make install' also installs a wrapper header file as [INCLUDEDIR/]vtblc.h which defines some macros which do the trick. I do not claim that this provides perfect compatibility between libvtblc and libftvt but as Amanda is so far the only package which made use of libvtblc and because Amanda only manipulates the time stamps and volume label entries this should suffice.

The new library and header file are installed as `LIBDIR/libftvt.[a,so]' and [INCLUDEDIR/]ftvt.h .


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