* engelbert.gruber@ssg.co.at (engelbert.gruber@ssg.co.at) [020225 01:06]: ->On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Ben Rosenberg wrote: -> ->> If you install something that was compiled for glibc 2.2 on a 2.4 glibc ->> system then it will run..ie backwards compatible..but if you install ->> something compiled for glibc 2.4 on a system with 2.2 installed..it most ->> like will hiccup and not run right. So if you update glibc on a system ->> to a newer version..then some of the software will need recompiling so ->> it can run right. It's not forward compatible...2.4 binaries will have ->> issues running on a 2.2 (glibc) system. ->suse64 is pre glibc as far as i can remember, so everything should run as ->glibc is backwards compatible. Nope, 6.0 was glibc I believe...anything prior to it was libc5. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC