Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:53:29 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: hbram@hab-software.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility between freeBSD versions Message-ID: <34F8F7D9.5C7D1BD4@san.rr.com> References: <34F96EFC.3D3C@hab-software.de>
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Hendrik A. Bramhoff wrote: > > Dear freeBSD team, > > in connection with a web software project I urgently need to find > out whether code which runs on one release of freeBSD will run without > recompilation on an earlier release. Since you said your need was urgent, I'll give you the answer I am pretty sure is correct in spite of not being an actual member of the Freebsd team. While binaries compiled on older versions of the OS should work on newer versions with a great degree of reliability, differences in the versions of the standard C libraries that newer binaries are compiled against (and other differences, especially in binaries like top) will sometimes prevent them from running on older systems. This problem is compounded as the time between the age of the system and binaries increases. I hope this information is of use to you. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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