[svlug] libc questions

[Michael K Vance]

Rick Moen wrote:

> 1.  Which C compiler and version are you using to do this?

gcc 2.8.1 (yes, I'm aware they recommend egcs 1.0.3 or 1.1--working on it).

> 2.  The version you're attempting to compile is a pre-2.0.7 _alpha_.
>     Considered something more stable?

Are you saying that 2.0.103 has been released before the famed 2.0.7pre6? It
seems to me that is not the case--2.0.7 was released end of August, 2.0.103 is
the latest off of alpha.gnu.org, with a date of Nov. 21. If you're simply
referring to its incredible alpha-ness, yes, I'm aware of that.
 
> Any binaries compiled against libc.so.5 or similar will become un-runnable,
> if you do.  However, why would you want to do that?  It would seem an

Sure. It was a matter of system clutter, I guess--having old compatability
libraries laying around. Nothing more.
 
> The ldd command displays what library "sonames" a binary will invoke
> dynamically.

Sure, I just didn't want to ldd every executable to check, and was wondering
if there were any especially notorious ones.

Thanks,

m.

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