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Re: Linux ELF OS ABI

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Doug Semler <dougsemler@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> At least glibc provides (through symbol versioning) backwards compatibility
>> (and other libraries ought to as well, when they aren't changing SONAME).
>> Which means if you compile/link against older glibc, it will work well
>> against a newer one.
>
> I'm just somewhat surprised that linking against a newer version of
> glibc, provided I don't use newer interfaces or symbols, is "a bad
> thing (tm)." ?Especially considering that glibc seems to be pretty

It should work. As I said, the original problem you have is a linker
bug, which has been fixed in trunk.


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H.J.
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