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Re: Radical idea, test backwards compatibility instead of recompile



Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> Exactly the same? Then the shlibs file is wrong:

> libm 6 libc6 (>= 2.1.94)
> libc 6 libc6 (>= 2.1.94)

Nope.  This just means that if you compile something against the new glibc,
it may not work with the old glibc.  However, anything compiled with the
old glibc that doesn't do anything weird should work with the new glibc.
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