On 10/18/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > As long as you are upgrading the toolchain packages (not downgrading) > > everything should be ok, especially if they have the same major (and > > minor version?) > > I think glibc is still an exception here, though I wouldn't like to bet > any amount of money on that! I do, however, agree that _upgrading_ gcc > and binutils is relatively safe (i.e. I've personally not run into any > trouble doing so, YMMV of course!). >
I remember reading on the glibc mailing list that glibc is always backward compatible, i.e. an application compiled for glibc-2.2 should work on a glibc-2.3 system. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
