Re: Is libc4 incompatible with libc6 envrionment?
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 10:41:35AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Is there a chance that changes in network structures/kernel headers
> > could obsolete these older libc4 programs?
>
> Quite possibly. We really haven't managed to support compatibility
> back this far, since we don't have the tools to build libc4 available
> any more...
Indeed. Last time I tried to build libc4 (pre-the hamm release), the problem
was that the dlltools had changed command line parameters or something,
and I didn't know what was going on to fix it. It seems a bit
counter-productive to make to make incompatible changes to obselete
software. I used the dlltools from bo, from memory. Perhaps a rex box
could do it. But then we'd have to work out how to fix the problem above too.
Hamish
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