What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?

Cristian Gafton gafton@redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> 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.

No need to worry - this works as expected.

Cristian
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