[gobolinux-users] Re: Compiling Glibc 2.3.6

[Laurent Pelecq]

Hisham Muhammad a écrit :
> The main problem with upgrading Glibc as I see it is the ABI breakage
> it invariably causes. Programs compiled with a newer Glibc simply
> don't run with older ones.

Even if I haven't succeeded in installing version 2.3.6, I'm a little bit
surprised that the ABI has changed after all. The library is versioned.
The version should being changed anytime the ABI changes (and we would
have a libc.so.7).

>From what I saw, it looks more as if some internal symbols has
disappeared. Could it be due to using a different compiler ?

Laurent