Re: binary compatibility
From: Uli Link (VonRechts.NachLinks_at_usenet.arcornews.de)
Date: 11/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:18:01 +0100
sol gongola schrieb:
>> Huh ? Is this a novel feature ?
>> In the past 15 years or so, code compiled on 4.x didn't work on 3.x,
>> not even 4.x did work on 4.y ( for x > y ).
>
No it's not a feature, it's a dirty hack.
>
> Version 3 and 4 were very different
> Version 4 and 5 are very different
> Subversion changes (between 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 or 5.2 and 5.3)
> have a chance of compatibility if your code wasn't doing
> something that dependant on something in the later libraries,
> especially if you were usng the same compiler version on both
> systems.
By changing the config to an older version, the older version of the
libraries are used for linking and the prepocessor flags are set to
older version.
There is no warranty that it will work.
-- Uli
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