[2738] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat 6.0 sysname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon S. Allbery)
Tue Jun 1 10:56:23 1999
To: Bill Zumach <zumach+@transarc.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz+@cmu.edu>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU,
cg2v+@andrew.cmu.edu, vitroth+@cs.cmu.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:00:07 EDT."
<199906011400.KAA04521@mailhost.transarc.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:54:47 -0400
From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
In message <199906011400.KAA04521@mailhost.transarc.com>, Bill Zumach writes:
+-----
| The reason we are retaining i386_linux22 for the Redhat 6.0 port is that
| if binaries done for 2.0.x don't work under 2.1.x there's an application
| coding bug somewhere, either in glibc or the application. It doesn't seem
+--->8
Not entirely. Red Hat 6 changed more than just the kernel and libc; it also
changed the g++ libraries, which caused groff (so far) to break on my test
systems.
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electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["God, root, what is difference?" -Pitr]
