Fedora 1.0 / Redhat Enterprise Compatability

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Mar 18 14:28:21 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:21:32AM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote:
> Are binaries compiled on Fedora 1.0 (Kernel 2.4.22 - Glibc 2.3.2)
> compatibile with Enterprise 2.1 (Kernel 2.4.9 - Glibc 2.2.4) or with

No.

> Enterprise 3.0 (Kernel 2.4.21 - Glibc 2.3.2).  Can be either static or
> dynamic linked programs.

Likely (if you only use basic libraries), though not guaranteed.
glibc is almost the same and gcc 3.3.x and 3.2.x is (almost) binary
compatible.  Of course if you link e.g. some toolkit libraries, the answer
will be most probably no.

We have backwards compatibility, not forward compatibility, so you should
be able to run programs built on AS2.1 on FC1 and EL3 on FC1.
Dynamically linked programs are always way more compatible than statically
linked ones, if the program ever uses NSS, iconv, dlopen or locales.

	Jakub





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