On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:38:37PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > | Is it fair to assume that by the time this version of libc6 occurs > | in a stable release, old commercial apps will run, or will they have > | to be recompiled? > > They'll need to be recompiled. (asumming binary incompatibility is > the cause of the problem) If you need to continue running a old, old, commercial, proprietary app that requires an old version of libc (or anything else, really), you can install it into it's own little chroot containing whatever old libraries you might need. http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html explains how. It's also mentioned in the quick reference if people.d.o is still down when you get this. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: e-cash JFK Perl-RSA passwd International Criminal Court
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