On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
| / Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| | Well, icaclient is not the only commercial app that I have seen that
| | falls prey to this. A CAD designing software also segfaults with the
| | new libc (both of these work *great* on Woody, which has the older
| | libc, horray for 'stable' :) . I hope the newer versions of these
| | softwares fix this.
| 
| Is this problem the result of a bug in the current unstable libc6, or
| is it the result of an incompatible change in libc6?

Binary incompatibility.  (most likely)

| Is it fair to assume that by the time this version of libc6 occurs
| in a stable release, old commercial apps will run, or will they have
| to be recompiled?

They'll need to be recompiled.  (asumming binary incompatibility is
the cause of the problem)

-D

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