Re: glibc 2.9

2012-06-20 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 20:33 +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: Since the only problem you mentioned is that you don't like the correct (and in fatc, only) solution to your problem, I would say your problem is not technological, but psychological in nature - nothing libev does can help you with that.

Re: glibc 2.9

2012-06-20 Thread Zsbán Ambrus
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Marc Lehmann schm...@schmorp.de wrote: in general, glibc itself has no forward compatibility, On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, jamal h...@cyberus.ca wrote: I cant recompile on every possible permutation of eglibc/uclibc/glibc unfortunately - so that idea is

Re: glibc 2.9

2012-06-20 Thread jamal
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 14:13 +0200, Zsbán Ambrus wrote: How about backwards compatibility? Could you compile the program only on a system with the older glibc version, and run it on a system with newer glibc? That would work to solve the problem - but i would miss out on the optimizations

Re: glibc 2.9

2012-06-20 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:00:54AM -0400, jamal h...@cyberus.ca wrote: I cant recompile on every possible permutation of eglibc/uclibc/glibc There are exactly two permutations of thes elibraries: uclibc and glibc/eglibc. And yes, if you want to support uclibc, you have to recompile. Just as you