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Re: Is 2.3 really binary compatible?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip dot com dot au>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:01:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: Is 2.3 really binary compatible?
- References: <20021003215414.GA3108@tigers-lfs.nsw.bigpond.net.au>
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Greg Schafer wrote:
> A statically linked bash (against glibc-2.2.5) segfaults on a
> glibc-2.3 system.
>
> See here for details:-
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-09/msg00438.html
>
> I understand it is related to how libnss works but isn't this a
> binary incompatibility?
If you link statically you have to preserve your entire eco system the
application runs in. Just one of the reasons why static linking is so
very much discouraged.
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