Backwards compatibility

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Wed May 26 10:48:00 GMT 1999


Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk> writes:

> I had already seen those, but they only talked about libc5<->glibc stuff,
> rather than glibc1<->glibc2. To give you an idea of the issues I faced, the
> following works:

libc5 == glibc1, at least at the level we are interested.  There never
was an official glibc1 which ran on Linux.

I think what you mean is glibc 2.0 and glibc 2.1?

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