A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Sun Nov 12 01:28:00 GMT 2000
"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> Ulrich, correct me if I am wrong. What Ulrich meant was you could
> use Linux binutils to compile .o for Solaris/x86.
This is a consequence. But it also covers the runtime side. As I've
said: if this field has a value other than 0 the binary has a form
specific for the OS and cannot be handled by general ELF tools. The
field is *not* there to distinguish binaries for different OSes per
se.
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