>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>> On SuSE it is simple to just load the installatuion CD, use YAST and select
>> libc.5 for installation.
> Pity the program was compiled to use a library which hasn't been
>default in a release this milleniem. And while I know you said linking
It seems that you are missing the important issues:
- libc.so.5 has been standard less than 2 years ago
- libc.so.6 has big binary compatibility problems.
SuSE/RH libc.so.6 definitely had problems up to the mid
of last year. There have even been problems with
RH binaries on RH!
- For the reasons above, I expect that many systems out
are problematic systems.
>static doesn't meet some standard, in practice many other application
>developers manage to make newer libraries work with current libraries
>and/or static linking.
Let me call it this way:
Other developers don't test for correct behaviour of their programs!
If I had not been the victim of this Linux incompatibility problem, I would
not know about it like other developers. Now I _know_ about the problem
an I am careful about the quality of my code.
Note: this problem is outside the scope of the sources that I manage and
I am not willing to spend any more time in this problem.
If we have luck, then one last reason for the problem has beedn fixed about
three weeks ago. Libc.so.6 code for the functions from ctype.h did suffer
from unpredictable effects caused by uninitalized data in libc.
If this is true, I expect that the problems will go away in 1.2 years.
J�rg
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