Tushar Teredesai wrote:
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.
Yes, but have you actually tried to upgrade a glibc installation in-situ (i.e. on the OS you're currently booted into)? I remember quite clearly the effects that had when I accidentally replaced my host's glibc with an LFS compiled version...it's not pretty, and yes, they were the same version (2.3.4). This may well have been caused by the host having vendor-specific patches, or being compiled with a different version of gcc, but the experience has definitely put me off ever trying to do such a thing on purpose!
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