On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:40:53PM +0100, Gary Coady mentioned:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:57:18AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> > Anyone know what the story is with glibc incompatibilities ? I've got a
> > wierd problem where compiling openssl on my redhat (7.1/glibc2.2.2) box
> > works - and I can run the binary, but if I scp it to another box (custom
> > distro/glibc2.2.1) and try and run it, it core dumps, in fputs().
> >
> > Now, if I compile it on a Mandrake (7.2/glibc2.1.3) box, it runs fine on
> > said "custom" box.
>> AFAIK glibc is designed to be forward compatible, but not backward
> compatible. I think the last major incompatiblity jump was with 2.1.97 so
> anything compiled with a later version of libc will not work on a libc
> library below that. Annoying but true.
Er, fputs() not working between 2.2.2 and 2.2.1 is a major problem. Ah,
DLL hell, it's nice to see it's not just on windows.
Kate
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