[5235] in SIPB bug reports
Don't build on pickled-herring or other beta machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Mar 22 01:17:49 1995
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 01:15:59 -0500
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU, rs6kswat@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
I just realized that people might accidentally build software
on machines running 3.2.5. This is a bad thing to do, because libc.a
changed between 3.2.3e and 3.2.5 in a non-backward-compatible way.
I.E. the old code works on both systems, but the new code doesn't work
on the old systems.
After most systems are 3.2.5, this won't be such a big deal,
but right now, any program you build for the RISC/6000 on a beta
machine will only run on a very limited set of systems. The likely
candidates for this problem are pickled-herring in the SIPB office and
washington in the test cluster.
--Sam
