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Re: RedHat Compatibility



On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:11:45PM +0200, wouter@debian.org wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Debian needs to be redhat binary compatible.
> Excuse me?
> "Standard" != "RedHat". There's something called the "Linux Standards
> Base" [...]

Quite frankly, Red Hat makes a better standard than the LSB atm: at least
there's an existing implementation you can compare and contrast against...

The C++ library ABI is heavily dependent on the gcc (g++) version you're
using. Red Hat uses gcc-2.96, which we only ship for ia64.

AIUI, anyway.

Cheers,
aj

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