Re: linux SMP - slackware or Redhat?

[Alan Cox]

> That's an illusion. Many old programs in the Linux world were and
> are written for Linux only. They compiled cleanly in the
> environment they were written for. glibc 2.1 conforms to more
> standards and breaks with old traditions (i.e. union semun).
> 
> Fix the programs and don't blame the library. For example, send
> patches to the maintainer of the program.

Thats been my experience. Most of the time the way you fix libc5->glibc
changes in a program is to get the original unadulterated unix version
and type make. Most #ifdef linux stuff with libc5 apps was 
        libc5 v standards v tradition

glibc does both standards and tradition (-D_BSD_SOURCE)

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