From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 11:10:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A72337BE5C for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e77IAQO08417; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:10:26 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Shawn Stepper Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FeeBSD 3.5 libc compatibility? Message-ID: <20000807111025.U4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <398EF847.9F1D4582@withinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <398EF847.9F1D4582@withinc.com>; from stepper@withinc.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:56:23AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Shawn Stepper [000807 10:56] wrote: > I want to distribute software for FreeBSD, and I don't know the libc > change history. I built my binaries on FreeBSD 3.5. Will they run on > older FreeBSD installations? 3.0 or later? 3.2 or later? 3.5 only? I am > new to FreeBSD (but not Unix). I searched the documentation and couldn't > find the answer to this question. Please help me out! FreeBSD strives to be backwards compatible with older releases, but this doesn't mean that applications built on newer releases will work on older ones. (Sort of how win95 can run win31 apps.) If I were you, I'd generate binaries for both FreeBSD 3.5 and 4.1. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message