Hello,
> the compat packages exist to provide missing libraries. the netbsd
> libc "soname" has never changed -- it was libc.so.12 when the first
> ELF port arrived, and it is libc.so.12 today. of course you can not
So the ABI for libc didn't change since the introduction of ELF and
no compat l
>
> when making such assertions it helps to be actually correct. while it
> is true that *any* old binary may require COMPAT_XX options in the kernel,
> netbsd supports binaries back to 386bsd for i386, with shorter periods
> of backwards compat for the newer plaforms. i have personally run 386b
Hello,
some notes about NetBSD libc:
it supports nsswitch for a long time, see here:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?nsswitch.conf++NetBSD-current
Dynamically loaded NSS modules are not supported.
To David Brownlee: I doubt NetBSD 1.0 binary could run against
a NetBSD 1.6 libc. They don't
