On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:22, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > That's right, no one complained till now. Thanks God I never had to > bother about glibc compatibility but it seems there are ways to build > backward compatible programs on fresher Debian systems. I don't know > if it helps but maybe > > http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Portable_binaries
I don't know how to intepret their text (I don't have too much time at the moment either), but quoting them: As an example, a binary compiled on a Debian Lenny system with glibc 2.7 won't run on a Debian Sarge system with glibc 2.3 because the older glibc version doesn't have all the features found and used when the binary was compiled on a newer system. A binary compiled on Debian Sarge will run on Debian Lenny, however, thanks to backwards compatibility. In practice, all this means is that you need to compile your application in a sufficiently old distribution. Examples of distributions that have been used successfully for making portable binaries include old glibc 2.2.5 based Red Hat Linux versions, Debian Sarge, and Debian Etch. Mojca _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~context Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~context More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
