Re: Two questions about making rpms work on multiple OS versions

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

> * Overzelous dependencies. When building fish on
> Fedora Core 5, a
> dependency on libc.so.6 is automatically added, but
> fish works just
> fine using earlier versions of libc. How can one
> specify that fish
> doesn't actually need the latest version of a
> library? Doing so would
> enable me to provide an rpm on the fish download
> page that works with
> any semi-modern RPM-based distribution.
You can build you binary rpm on , say RH9 and it
should work on later disributions (hope you don't use
c++, because it's ABI changed frequently)

Valery

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