binary compatibility issues

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:16:29 -0700, Adam Reid wrote:
> I am developing applicaitons on a glibc-2.3.4/gcc-3.4.3 based system. I
> would like to make the binaries compatible with systems based on older
> versions of glibc, perhaps as old as 2.2.4. 

The apbuild tool was developed to fix this problem and many other binary
compatibility problems on Linux. I suggest you use this, it's pretty
straightforward:

  http://autopackage.org/aptools.html

This will correctly eliminate the newer symbol versions from your binary.

thanks -mike