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Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:36:50 -0500
- cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
On 12 Jan 1999 12:46:26 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
>
>> If you compile your own binaries against glibc 2.1, you also need to
>> recompile some other libraries. The problem is that libio had to be changed
>> and therefore libraries that are based or depend on the libio of glibc,
>> e.g. libstdc++, ncurses or slang, need to be recompiled. If you experience
>> strange segmentation faults in your programs linked against glibc 2.1, you
>> might need to recompile your libraries.
>
>libstdc++ shouldn't have problems. You have to adapt it to the
>compiler only.
What happens if you recompile a library, say ncurses, against 2.1 and then
try to use that library with an old binary? If this doesn't work,
distributions will have problems.
zw