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. * Anders Johansson (andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net) [020224 23:39]: ->On Monday 25 February 2002 08:31, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->> glibc is backward compatible but not forward..so if ->> they are looking for libs that are newer version then they were compiled ->> against then they will most likely error. -> ->Hm. -> ->This sounds a bit strange. Could you expand on this? -> ->//Anders -> ->-- ->To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com ->For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com ->Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here -> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- 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