Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 12:01:56 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources Message-ID: <199907081801.MAA14323@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jul 1999 14:10:38 %2B0200." <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> References: <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> <6514.931435144@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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In message <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : I think there's an advantage in having both *-5.2 and *-6.0 present in the : tree since I can't guarantee that Red Hat 6.0 supports all Linux binaries : that run on Red Hat 5.2 and consequently that *base-6.0 supports the same : binaries as *base-5.2 under emulation. I'm just being carefull. Historically, Linux has been bad about maintaining binary compatibility for teh fringes of its ABI. When I released the binary only ObjectBuilder, it was good for about 3 months before the ABI changed enough so that it couldn't run.... And they didn't bump the major rev to reflect this breakage (they were using the C++ streams for stdio, which left C++ mangled names exposed to all application programs :-(. BTW, is it possible to have multiple versions of the linux libraries installed? I've recently given some thought to seeing if I could get ObjectBuilder running again... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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