StarOffice 5 :o(

[pb@nexus.co.uk]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Alex Buell wrote:

> May I extend my deepest congratulations to the StarOffice 5.01 authors for
> making it *IMPOSSIBLE* for me to upgrade to StarOffice 5.01 on my
> glibc-2.1 system. This package relies on glibc-2.0.7. 
> [...] 
> Sheesh. Give me a break! I thought that glibc-2.0.7 binaries were
> supposedly upwardly compatible with glibc-2.1 libraries?

There's no point complaining to the glibc lists.  Address your comments to
Star Division directly.  If they didn't use internal and unpublished glibc
details the problem would not occur.

p.