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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 1997 15:40:47 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kent@erlang.ericsson.se
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kent@erlang.ericsson.se
Subject:   Re: Application os version compatibility?
Message-ID:  <199707060610.PAA24003@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707060136.DAA28936@townsend.ericsson.se> from Kent Boortz at "Jul 6, 97 03:36:17 am"

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Kent Boortz stands accused of saying:
> 
> I know some just link "libc.2.2" to "libc.3.0" to get *some*
> applications working that was built for another os version than
> the one running but there must be a better way to create
> applications that will survive over os version?

Link statically.  Or suggest to your users that they install the
compat_x distributions.

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