Re: Debian executables...

[Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>]

> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
> > 
> > I was rather hoping as a worst case to have gotten some form of
> > 'unsupported executable format' error message if there was a
> > compatability problem...
> 
> Does this give you any insight?
> 
> $ ld --version
> GNU ld version 2.16.91 20060118 Debian GNU/Linux
> Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 20060115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-7)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> $ gcc testmem2.c
> me@haggis:~$ file a.out
> a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
> GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

Well, on my old system I get
 % ld --version
GNU ld 2.11.90.0.29
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux

And my stable Debian gives
 $ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.15
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

But I'm afraid I still don't see why my older compiler produces an
executable for '2.2.5', but the newer Debian ones quote a lower '2.2.0'..

What am I missing?

Regards,
DigbyT
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