On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Tim Jones wrote:
> We've been providing BRU and BRU Server agents for OpenBSD since OpenBSD 2.8.
>
> For the most part, OpenBSD updates have not broken compatibility with our
> baseline builds for 2.8 and 3.5 - until 3.9. We have a customer that has
> installed 3.9 on a group of servers and we now witness libc compatibility
> issues that can't be resolved with a simply symlink.
>
> Is it known that applications built against the 3.5 libc are not compatible
> with 3.9 (they have been proven to work fine with 3.8)? Is there something
> that the user can do to enable backwards compatibility, or is the only
> solution to compile special versions of the BRU tools for 3.9?
You leave outthe intersting details... but symlinking lib versions is
bad, bad, bad. What should work is copying the right libc (the one the
app was linked against).
-Otto
