gcc-compat builds to a redhat 7.3 system could be an incompatibility
with 7.1 -> 7.3  
cant remember what glibc was used in 7.3 but you may have to update to
that.  

Dennis

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 09:07, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> Okay, I am hoping that this is a question with a simple answer, but I
> have googled and googled and RTFMed and RTFMed to no avail whatsoever.
> 
> RedHat 8.0 comes with a "compat-gcc" (and compat-libstdc++) package
> set which purports to be able to produce binaries which will run on
> RedHat 7.x systems.  
> 
> I am, in fact, able to succesfully build my package with g++296, and
> it runs fine on the RH8.0 box, but when I try to run it on our RH7.1
> server, it immediately aborts with this error:
> 
>   ./testapp: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by 
>./testapp)
> 
> Now presumably, there would be no point to providing the gcc-compat
> package if it were impossible to run programs compiled against
> psyche's glibc on boxes with earlier glibc.  And indeed, running
> "strings" on /lib/libc.so.6 on RH8 suggests that it contains the
> symbols for previous versions of glibc.
> 
> So, my question: is there some flag to g++/ld/libtool that I need to
> be using to specify a different version symbol for glibc?
> 
> If this is more of a redhat-devel question, please let me know.
> 
> Pointers to appropriate documentation always appreciated.
> 
> -n
> 
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