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Re: StarOffice 5 :o(

   Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:30:50 +0000 (GMT)
   From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>

   Sheesh. Give me a break! I thought that glibc-2.0.7 binaries were
   supposedly upwardly compatible with glibc-2.1 libraries?

They are if programs use the defined interfaces and not any backdoors
into the internal implementation.

The staroffice folks can provide a LD_PRELOAD shared object which
exports the internal glibc-2.0.x symbols it wants to get at via weak
aliases for people who want to use existing staroffice binaries with
glibc-2.1.x systems.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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