[lug] file not found/incompatibility problem(s)

[Nate Duehr]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:48:23PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:07:14PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> >Or more accurately an incompatibility in an Alpha version of  GCC that
> >RedHat was scolded for shipping and the one the rest of the world is
> >running?
> 
> Sorry, that's not it.  The XVScan binaries were built with the older
> version of GCC.  The problem is that RedHat 7.0 dropped the compatibility
> libraries (which they kept in the 6.x series as a way of transitioning
> people).
> 
> The older version of XVScan was built on a 5.2 system, which used
> libc5 and 6.x included those as well as glibc6.  Chip was installing
> software from a tar file built in what, 1996?
> 
> Sean

Ok ok, I see.

I still think RH made a mess of 7.0, though.  :)

So it's a libc5 vs. libc6 thing... that makes sense.

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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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