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Re: Can we release this now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Nov 17 20:46:24 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 17 Nov 1997 20:44:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:30:10 -0500
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> RH 4.0 and 4.2 use the exact same version of the libc and libm shared
> libraries. They use different versions of the X11 libraries but
> www.xfree86.org claims that they should be completely compatable. I
> don't see any problem with running 4.2 on the build engine. So, I plan
> to upgrade cutter-john to 4.2 in the very near future. Maybe tomorrow.
At the *source* level, yes. Programs linked against newer versions of
the libraries may want Xkb-related symbols, which the older version
doesn't provide; I challenge you to prove backward binary compatibility.
> Also, let's make 4.2 the official current version in the very near
> future. (First, we should rebuild the kernel rpm with the ipfrag fix,
> but that shouldn't be too hard.) I'm thinking this weekend might be a
> good time for a release.
I imagine Red Hat will release a fixed package RSN.
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
