Re: The fate of libc5

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1000711160857.27815A-100000@higgs.physik.uni-mainz.de> you wrote:
[snip]
> BTW: has anybody noticed that because of the frequent libc changes many
> commercial applications are *statically* linked on Linux while they are
> *dynamic* on other Unices?  This is contraproductive.  (Examples include
> Mathematica4 and the ADSM client software.)

> Regards
>     -richy.

The latest (former ADSM now TSM-)client is linked dynamically against
glibc2.1.
rpm -q TIVsm-BA --requires | grep libc.so
libc.so.6  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)  

See http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/10/902782119.html
       cu andreas