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Re: libc5 vs. glibc2 compatibility problems
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: libc5 vs. glibc2 compatibility problems
- From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb dot net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 20:25:43 -0500
- CC: glibc2 mailing list <glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>
- Organization: Kenneth Brody and filePro
- References: <3820919A.657D42C2@bestweb.net> <u8so2ntioc.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de>
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Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> >>>>> Kenneth Brody writes:
[...]
> > 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.
Oh well. I can always hope that it exists somewhere...
> > 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>.
Thanks. That did the trick!
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