On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Anne POSSOZ wrote:
> To be able to run some (old) applications on redhat 7.0
> (for axample matlab) the libc-5 support is still needed.
>
> I just added the RH 6.2 libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and
> ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm packages on the PC.
>
> Question: apparently there is no incompatibility with these
> rpms so why are they not provided together with redhat 7?
The support for old stuff has to be dropped at some point; usually extra
backward compatibility is there for one major version only (RH6x, in this
case).
Hopefully this will also encourage Wolfram Research to make a newer
version of Matlab available too..
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Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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