Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 05:40:25 -0700 From: "Carl Shapiro" <carl.shapiro@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: binary compatibility query Message-ID: <4dcb5abd0805050540m292b319aw52aa2cb8ba018e12@mail.gmail.com>
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FreeBSD Hackers, I have a general question about the compatibility of FreeBSD binaries within major releases. If I build a binary for a given release of FreeBSD can I make a reasonable guarantee that the binary will run on both previous and subsequent minor releases of the same major release? In other words, if I build on FreeBSD 6.3 and do not rely on anything unique to 6.3 (such as the presence of specific version strings) how certain can I be that the code will or will not run on 6.2, 6.1 etc.? Also, is this documented anywhere on the FreeBSD web site? The closest thing I could find is the following guidance for driver vendors which falls just short of answering my question: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation (Too bad the fancy illustration is missing.) Regards, Carl
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