Re: binary compatibility query

On Sat, 10 May 2008 13:50:48 +0100 (BST)
Robert Watson <rwatson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julian Elischer wrote:
basically if you rely only on the standard posix interfaces and don't do
anything exotic then you will "probably" be safe.
For "raw" UNIX applications, this rule of thumb works well, but not for
applications that depend on third-party libraries, languages, or daemons.

You can lose the dependency on third party libraries by compiling your
application to a static binary. That will also help with the few
breakages that occur with the system libraries, and with compatibility
across major releases using the backwards compatX packages.

<mike
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