That's right, no one complained till now. Thanks God I never had to bother about glibc compatibility but it seems there are ways to build backward compatible programs on fresher Debian systems. I don't know if it helps but maybe
http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Portable_binaries Piotr 2009/8/27 Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]>: > On 2009-08-27, Piotr Kopszak wrote: >> I have just built successfully 0.43.0 on lenny ppc. Is there any >> special reason you build on sarge? > > Yes. I have tried building on a more recent machine and then quite > some people using older systems were unable to execute the binary. For > you it might not be such a big issue since there are probably not many > linux ppc users wanting to install the latest context while insisting > to keep working on an ancient system :) :) :) > > For linux on i386 architecture it's a bit different since the system > is often installed by an admin and user has no choice. (The binaries > built on recent system didn't work on the old contextgarden for > example.) > > Mojca > -- http://okle.pl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~context Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~context More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
