Re: Backwards compatibility compiling
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:20:22PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I'm trying to compile various things that want to use older libs --
> whether it's trying to link to stuff that wants libc5 or older versions
> of tcl. I have the older versions installed as well with the alt-dev.
> What do I need to do to compile with these?
>
> Install altgcc and use i486-linuxlibc1-gcc.
hmm if this is needed, then how do all the package maintainers convert their
software to libc6? Can't old source be compiled with the new headers? Is
there some faq or something about this? (i'm clueless) :)
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