glibc2.1 not binary compatible with 2.0

Glenn W. Bach glenn@dodgson.wonderland.caltech.edu
Wed Apr 14 11:10:00 GMT 1999


Has there been any progress in figuring out why 2.0 binaries aren't
compatible with 2.1 libs? 

In Linux, we just got away from libc5 hell, where no two systems were
compatible. I would hate for this to happen again.

If there is any way we can help test this, let me know, because we have
several programs that are affected. At first I thought it might be because
we were using the old libstdc++, but even compiling with egcs 1.0.3 and
libstdc++.so.2.8 we get the same problem, ie. a program compiled on RedHat
5.2 with glibc2.0, egcs 1.0.3, and libstdc++.so.2.8 will not run on RedHat
beta6 with glibc2.1. It immediately seg-faults.

Glenn



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