My compliments to you.... your one of the few people I've met who could see what you just saw. 90% of the time this works... the other 10% it's either too low level or it's actually wanting to see a specific glibc to run. (For example a compiler front end or RAD)
James On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 14:53, Todd Lyons wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:40:21PM -0700 : > > Todd, > > > > I see your point but I have a number of programs compiled on 7.2 that > > still run on 9.0 This is the compatibility I'm speaking of. Whereas 4 > > months ago we compiled a Linux from scratch compiled it with gcc3.0 and > > nothing ran on it, unless compiled on 3.0. This is the improvement I'm > > speaking of. Not to mention the notes on the gcc and gnome sites about > > backwards compatibility, improvements in 3.2. > > Yeah, that's cool. You just install the correct libgcc* and libstdc++* > libraries which are compiled with the same version of gcc that your > application is compiled with and all is right in the world :) > > I took off on the kernel slant when I should have been more general (I > had just read that email a few minutes before so I had it on my brain I > suppose). > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-5mdk
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