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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, thanks so much for the information! > > Just out of curiosity: > > 1. Since newer glibc's are compatible with older glibc's (but not the > other way around) is it not possible to take the latest glibc and > lower the 'minimum supported kernel version'? in addition to system calls. there could be other symbols which are not present in older libc > > 2. If you have built your toolchain statically linked to an older > glibc then wouldn't it would mean you couldn't compile programs which > use newer system calls (e.g. futex, inotify)? you have to understand that the toolchain components themselves need a libc when they run. Its not same as the target libc that you would use to link the programs that will be generated by your statically linked cross compiler. > > -- > For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq > > -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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