On Thu, 19 May 2005 18:15:33 -0700, David Daney wrote: > The point here is what happens when you do build-time linking to > functions that don't exist in older versions of the system's shared > libraries (those linked at runtime).
Actually that's not the point here. This is an easy problem to notice and solve, and you're right that Windows and MacOS X have the same issue. The point is that the toolchain silently gives you dependencies you weren't expecting and may have coded explicitly to avoid. thanks -mike
