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Re: libc5 vs. glibc2 compatibility problems


>>>>> Kenneth Brody writes:

 > I have done several searches on the net for answers, but as of yet, I
 > haven't found them.  I hope that someone here can point me in the right
 > direction.

 > I have a program compiled under RedHat 6.0 (glibc2) that won't run under
 > Slackware 4.0 (libc5) due to an imcompatibility in the getpwnam() library
 > call.  Is there a list of such problems available?
Not that I know of.

 > The program also has the same incompatibility with RedHat 5.2, which uses
 > glibc2, but I understand it is an older version of glibc2.  Is there an
 > easy way to determine the version of glibc2 that is on a system, and is
 > there a list of known incompatibilities between versions?
See __GLIBC__ and __GLIBC_MINOR__ from <features.h>.

Andreas
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