On Sunday 05 January 2003 23:10, Tom Lane wrote: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It is very possible that the supporting libc shared libraries > > will be removed by the OS upgrade -- the old binaries may not even run > > when it is critical that they do run.
> Urgh, that's a mess. Yah, it is a mess. I've been playing in that mudpit for three years.... > > If I can get older versions building again on newer systems, that will > > help buy some breathing room from my point of view. > Worst-case, we could include a back-rev postmaster binary in new > distributions. While I have in the past suggested this, I'm not happy with the idea, even though it may be the best short-term solution. > However, that still requires us to keep the back revs > buildable on newer OS releases, which evidently is less than trivial > in the Linux world :-( That is the wonderful result of having so many rapidly developing applications, including our own. We have, I'm sure, given a few ulcers to Linux distributors too. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
