On 08/23/2009 06:45 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Or are you saying that it is possible to compile on a newer glibc, then run with the same libc.so but against an older kernel, where the result of a configure-time test is no longer accurate?
Exactly. For binary GNU/Linux distributions, the package will usually be built on the latest kernel, but the user may have chosen not to install a new-enough kernel.
Paolo
