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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