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Re: libc5 vs. glibc2 compatibility problems


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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