On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 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..
With gcc-2.96? (just kidding) ;)
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