Binary compatibility between glibc 2.1.0/2.1.1 and 2.1.2 ?

[Ulrich Drepper]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:

> If the answer is "no" to one of the questions, could you please
> elaborate a wee bit?

There are certain "incompatiblities" (not really) in the cases where
the old libraries were buggy.  Otherwise there are no problems.  And
by having the version dependencies which only take the actually used
functions into account, one avoids running programs depending on the
correct function semantics on systems with old and buggy libraries.

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