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Re: libc5 vs. glibc2 compatibility problems
- To: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb dot net>
- Subject: Re: libc5 vs. glibc2 compatibility problems
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 03 Nov 1999 21:38:11 +0100
- Cc: glibc2 mailing list <glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>
- References: <3820919A.657D42C2@bestweb.net>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
>>>>> 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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