On Sat, Feb 01, Derek Fountain wrote:
Alternatively wait for 8.2 which will most probably be based on glibc 2.3/2.3.X.
What will that mean for compatibility with 8.1? Will 8.2 RPMs work on 8.1?
As always: programs linked against a newer library version must not work with an older library version. This is true for every Operating system, even Windows. You can have luck and the glibc 2.3.X compiled binaries will work with glibc 2.2.x, but there is no gurantee. But glibc 2.2.x binaries will continue to work with glibc 2.3.X, as long as they don't call forbidden, internal glibc functions. Static binaries are different: If you have a real static binary, which does not use NSS: It will continue to work. If you have a pseudo static binary like RPM, which will dlopen NSS modules and glibc: No, they will not work anymore, you have to recompile them. But this binaries are outside of the defined interface. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B