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Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:47:14 -0400
- cc: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper), libc-alpha@cygnus.com
Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> said:
[...]
> What happens if you recompile a library, say ncurses, against 2.1 and then
> try to use that library with an old binary? If this doesn't work,
> distributions will have problems.
It works fine, AFAIKS. Old binaries work fine with the new libraries, what
doesn't work is to compile new programs against new libc and old ncurses:
The result crashes on startup.
What still seems not to work is new glibc (2.0.108 here) + pam: RedHat's
rpm doesn't find users/groups, and a newly compiled login from
util-linux-2.9g won't let you in.
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