On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:39 +0000, Eduardo Tongson wrote: > On 10/4/05, Ariz C. Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ymessenger is not intended for mdk10.x but only for 7.x-9.0 & debian. > > the package is not binary compatible. stick to Gaim or use RH 9.0 instead. > > It's intended to run and was tested on old Linux distro version, but there is > no > reason for it not to run if you have the needed libraries. >
Actually, there is at least one reason it will not run. That's because most probably the shared libc library among other libraries have different symbols from the one the binary intended for an older distro was compiled against. And then there's the issue of what compiler (version and vendor) was used to create the binaries -- and whether or not the application was built as an a.out binary, an elf binary, or some other binary format. There are a lot of factors which will make a binary incompatible on newer versions/distribution releases because each binary is built to link against a certain version of a certain library -- and the safest bet for making it run on newer distributions is to recompile the sources to work on the intended platform. Of course, this is assuming that the developers did the programming right, which we might never know in the case of proprietary closed source software. ;) -- Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key: 0x08AE6EAC http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com Mobile: +63 928 7291459
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