http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/#compatibility

So, I'm thinking this is not the full story because I also found this,

http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/rhel5_whatsnew.pdf

and it also talks about compatibility ( under the GCC 4.1 Compiler section
).

"...enable applications that were previously certified on the versions 3 and
4..."

Maybe the keyword here is "certified"

thanks,

Barry

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Jos Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:53:34AM -0400, Barry Andrews wrote:
>
> > EL5 claims to be fully compatible with binaries that were built on EL4
> and
> > 3.
>
> Where is that claimed?  I think this technically can't be true (at least
> not in the generic way you put it here), as libraries are upgraded etc.
>
> For applications only using glibc etc., for which there also exist
> compatibility libraries and such, it can be true.
>
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