Dinesh Shah wrote: > What the kernel version has to do with running a program? It is the > libraries that matter while running any binary. Some posters here has > already asked the OP to run ldd and find the library dependencies.
there are a few applications which do require specific kernel versions. admittedly these are few, but these are from large ISVs as well. > If you have a distro and your program which is LSB compliant you will not > see much problems. the configuration files may or may not be a problem, but there have been cases of applications not "just working" across RHEL3.x and RHEL4.x because of features included in the later version. a very rudimentary example could be applications assuming lower resistance from SELinux in RHEL5.x compared to RHEL4.x and failing in execution. at the end of the day, the "runnability" of the application is something that is a function of the ISV development process which in turn also influences the OS development -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
