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Re: Which libc should we use in the future?

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, David Engel wrote:

> There is one catch with libc 5.4.x that people need to be aware of.
> Programs built with it may not run with libc 5.3.x or lower.  What
> this means is that once someone installs libc 5.4.x and programs built
> with it on their system, they can't downgrade back to libc 5.2.18
> without risking breaking things.  This could be a real problem for a
> developer who needed to update a package in the stable tree because it
> would need to be built with libc 5.2.18.  

Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill here, but to me that seems
really unimpressive - it amounts to a complete lack of backward
compatibility of any executable built with this library, doesn't it?  I
thought the whole idea of dynamic linking was that the library could
change without recompiling the binaries ... 

I would feel more for people who use Debian but aren't Debian developers.
They could make a binary distribution of some program of theirs, only to
find it won't run on other systems ....  Is there any plan to put this
straight?

Cheers,

Nikhil.

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Nikhil Nair
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Tel.: +44 1223 368353
Email: nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk
       nnair@debian.org



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