From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 28 21:46:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18622 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:46:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18546 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06378; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:16:30 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA04357; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:16:30 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980301161630.59541@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:16:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: hbram@hab-software.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility between freeBSD versions References: <34F96EFC.3D3C@hab-software.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34F96EFC.3D3C@hab-software.de>; from Hendrik A. Bramhoff on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 06:21:48AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 6:21:48 -0800, Hendrik A. Bramhoff wrote: > Dear freeBSD team, > > in connection with a web software project I urgently need to find > out whether code which runs on one release of freeBSD will run without > recompilation on an earlier release. You can't rely on it working that way round. The other way round works as long as you have the old version libraries on the system. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message