On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:53:14 -0500 James Carlson wrote: > Glenn Fowler writes: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:05:10 -0500 James Carlson wrote: > > > Binary incompatibility for _what_? > > > > at time (t) I post solaris sparc binaries for say, ksh > > at time (t+1) the solaris implementation relase changes > > and posted binaries no longer work for the new release > > worse, binaries built to (t+1) dont work for (t) > > so the binaries I post split to pre-(t) and post-(t)
> I'm still confused about the incompatibility that's of concern here. like I said, its based on empirical evidence I don't know if the solaris systems in question are maintained properly I don't know the details of the solaris contracts I do know how cc works and how to copy a.out's from one system to another I do have "customers" with solaris systems that want ksh a.out's ksh93s built on SunOS hostname 5.8 Generic_108528-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000 and run on SunOS hostname 5.6 Generic_105181-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 produces ld.so.1: ./ksh-sol8.sun4: fatal: libc.so.1: version `SUNW_1.18' not found (required by file ./ksh-sol8.sun4) ld.so.1: ./ksh-sol8.sun4: fatal: relocation error: file ./ksh-sol8.sun4: symbol tzname: referenced symbol not found ksh93s built on SunOS hostname 5.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R and run on SunOS hostname 5.6 Generic_105181-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 produces ld.so.1: ./ksh-sol9.sun4: fatal: libc.so.1: version `SUNW_1.18' not found (required by file ./ksh-sol9.sun4) ld.so.1: ./ksh-sol9.sun4: fatal: relocation error: file ./ksh-sol9.sun4: symbol strcoll: referenced symbol not found now there may be some narrow path of cc/ccs flags/executables && uname -r matching that I could set up to make compatible binaries for all solaris but even then am I crippling later releases for the sake of compatibility with earlier ones? and I also have N-1 other target architectures with possibly worse version management problems, and finally, building a.out's is (ideally) 1% of my job therefore, HOSTTYPE=(os)[(differentiating-number)].(architecture)[(-bits)], sol8.i386, sol11.i386-64 etc. -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
