[5292] in testers
Re: Linux 9.2 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 18 12:13:49 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 18 Apr 2003 12:13:45 -0400
These problems are just a consequence of running Red Hat 9; they're not
due to anything Athena has changed. It's disappointing that the glibc
developers (particularly Ulrich Drepper) have decided to break backwards
compatibility for no obvious gain, but we can't do a lot about it.
Presumably, the rest of the world is affected, not just us; if the
vendors of Maple and Tecplot and Allegro are still providing any kind of
Linux support, they will presumably have to issue new binaries that work
on Red Hat 9 at some point.
