[KLUG Members] Re: RedHat 8.0 libc5? -- upgrading RedHat keeps compat-libs ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>:
> Nice Chart!  

Thanx.  I've been meaning to add a bigger one to my web site when I get time
("time" <chuckle>).

> My upgrade(s) must have just dragged the files forward in time. 

Correct!  A RedHat 7 system upgraded from 6.2 will still have them.

> Grabbed a RH5.0 CD, rpm --install libc-5.3.12-24.i386.rpm 
> ld.so-1.9.5-3.i386.rpm, and now the crummy binary app is happy.

It might not hurt to rebuild them too.  Haven't tried it myself.

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