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Re: binary compatibility issues

From: Mike Hearn <mike at plan99 dot net>
To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:20:05 +0100
Subject: Re: binary compatibility issues
References: <1128586589.4344dd5d4de44@webmail.lumerical.com>

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:16:29 -0700, Adam Reid wrote:
> I am developing applicaitons on a glibc-2.3.4/gcc-3.4.3 based system. I
> would like to make the binaries compatible with systems based on older
> versions of glibc, perhaps as old as 2.2.4. 

The apbuild tool was developed to fix this problem and many other binary
compatibility problems on Linux. I suggest you use this, it's pretty
straightforward:

  http://autopackage.org/aptools.html

This will correctly eliminate the newer symbol versions from your binary.

thanks -mike

References:
- binary compatibility issues
  - From: Adam Reid

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