>
> Jack,
>
> Glibc-2.0.7 is not particularly a graphics library. It is the latest
> stable
> release (I think) of the gnu c runtime library. On linux systems it is
> generally known (by symbolic link) as libc.so.6, but like the rest of
> gnu it aims for a wider audience than just linux. It handles c function
> calls, annd is the successor to libc-so.5. The two are not compatible
> - some of the structures they retrn and expect have changed, but
> they can coexist on the same system, as they have different sonames.
>
> If you succeed in confusing version control and mixing them in the
> same run unit, you will generally get a segment fault for your trouble.
>
> On a linux system, libraries are the sharable pieces of code that
> pertains to some feature or capability: the c libraries contain code
> that can be shared among multiple instances of c programs.
> libX11 contains code that is shared by the X server and X clients..
> On other systems, the libraries contain code that the compilers
> don't want to be bothered with generating each time it is referenced.
> In a sense, this is also true of Linux. Ican't afford books, so I know
> only what I can read between the lines of the man pages and info,
> and what I have learned in the school oof hard knocks.
>
> So what gtk is telling you is that it depends on the behavior of c
> functions as implemented in glibc-2.0.7, which it expects will
> be the same in glibc 2.1, but that it knows are different in in
> glibc-2.0.6 and any libc.so.5.
>
> I hope this helps :-)
>
> Lawson
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Say I compile and install glibc, and then go to compile N program that
uses the old libs, does it know where to find the correct ones? What
about if I compile a newer program that need 2.0.7 it will be able to find
that lib 'magicily'? Or do they just verfify that they are installed at
compile and don't 'use' them till runtime?
Would other programs that already exist on the system be able to find the
correct library at runtime also?
Thanxz again
