[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This is correct. I have a RH7.0 system: > >$ gcc --version >2.96 >$ rpm -q glib >glib-1.2.8-4 > >(I don't know if the glib is stable or not)
You realize, don't you, that glib is not the same thing as glibc? glib is a library of some useful C routines that used to be part of GTK; glibc is the GNU C Library, which is required for Linux systems to function. Does anybody know if executables compiled on Debian unstable, which now has glibc-2.2, will run on Red Hat 7.0 and its almost-2.2 glibc? Or vice versa, with a compatible gcc? I'd hope so, but as far as I know none of the Red Hat boxes at work are later than 6.2 and I don't intend to run RH at home. >Check on gcc.gnu.org and you will see that 2.96 was the label for the >devel tree and is binary incompatible with all but version 2.96. If >you want to "upgrage" (don't!) your system to use gcc 2.96 it will be >binary compatible with other executables made with 2.96. Of course, >then things made with the stable 2.95.2 won't work. In fairness, Red Hat note that 2.95.2 wasn't exactly stable on any architecture other than i386 (particularly not on Alpha). Michael Tiemann commented on it recently - I think there might have been a link off Slashdot or something. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
