Great! Many thanks. John
> On Jun 27, 2021, at 15:57, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > At Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:55:29 -0700, "Paul A. Steckler" wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:16 AM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So here’s my question: if we upgrade to debian 9 or even (gasp) 10, would >>> the >> resulting binaries run on earlier versions of Linux? >> >> Do the binaries use dynamic libraries? Those libraries differ among >> Debian versions. > > The C library (glibc) is dynamically linked, and that's usually the > issue. While the shared library is generally called "libc.so.6", the > compiler or linker apparent generates a run-time check (based on which > functions Racket uses from the C library?) to ensure that the library > is actually new enough. > > I tried building Racket on Debian 10, and the result ran on Debian 8, > so probably upgrading to 10 is fine. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/20210627135715.177%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/701300d4-12c8-4d63-a4b6-39d3ce002708%40mtasv.net.
