On 7/27/07, David Mathog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is an issue recently with backwards compatibility of linux
> binaries generated on newer machines not running on very closely
> related older ones, for instance Mandriva 2007.1 to 2007.0. I'm
> in the process of upgrading my cluster to all "new" linux's to avoid
> this problem. Here's one link describing this issue:
>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.mandriva/browse_thread/thread/194d2b6dbb0da3fe/3a7541873e2ab9af?lnk=st&q=&rnum=4#3a7541873e2ab9af
>
> (skip down to the 3rd post for the explanation).
>
> Anyway, this problem raised its ugly head, again, when I tried
> to copy binaries from one of my newer systems into
> boel_binaries.tar.gz from systemimager 3.8.1-1. Having seen
> this problem before I recognized the otherwise mysterious:
>
> Floating point exception (core dumped)
>
> message which appeared where my binary was to run. Others who
> have not previously been aware of this issue could be very
> confused when they hit this.
>
> There really isn't anything wrong with the current boel, but in
> order to avoid biting more and more users, which will happen
> as they upgrade to newer linux distros, it might be a good idea
> if the next version of boel used the newer gcc/ld libraries, so
> that it could load the newer binaries.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Mathog
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
>
>
>
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