Re: libc changes and freebsd-4 compatible binaries

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Martin P. Hellwig <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > To conclude; I can not agree that the tatement that you can run the same 
> > binaries on 98 as on XP is always true, in my case it is too much not 
> > true to be relevant.
>
>
> Maybe, in my case (i don't use as many programs as you) i never had any
> problem of this sort. Now with Linux were each year they consider a necessity
> to change libc, everything causes problems immediately.

Well the FreeBSD libc changes where the first time in 4 years BSD'ing 
(at least that is what I know, could be worse/better), so I think it's 
pretty stable.
I'm also quit sure that the BSD guru's are likely to avoid to do such a 
mess every year.

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