Re: packaging and binary incompatibility coming from the compiler

[Andrew Haley <aph redhat com>]

Patrice Dumas writes:
 > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:43:55AM +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
 > > * Patrice Dumas [17/04/2007 11:15] :
 > > >
 > > > But what about user compiled programs that are not in the Fedora
 > > > collection?
 > > 
 > > IMHO, they should probably be rebuilt for each new Fedora release as well.
 > 
 > Is that documented/advertised somewhere?

It depends on which libraries you're talking about.  For those that
don't have a stable ABI, you have to rebuild; for those that do have a
standard ABI (libc and libgcj-bc, for example) you don't.

Andrew.

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