White Paper: GNU C Library Compatibility Environment

by Matthew S. Wilson
<msw@redhat.com>

Copyright © 1999 by Red Hat Software, Inc.

Content

1. Backwards compatibility
2. An example
3. Guidelines when using the compatibility system
4. Building programs
5. Running glibc 2.0 programs
6. More information

Abstract

Due to changes in the GNU C Library, programs built on Red Hat Linux 6.0 will not run on older versions of Red Hat Linux. To allow developers to build programs for 6.0 and 5.2 on the same system, a compatibility building environment is included in Red Hat Linux 6.0.

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