libc changes and freebsd-4 compatible binaries

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue May 3 01:25:46 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:49:58AM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> On 2 May 2005 11:30, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> 
> Sorry for bothering, but:
> 
> > The level of discussion is well beyond my competence, could somebody offer
> > clear explanation -- will freebsd-4 compatible binaries continue working on
> > current DFBSD? E.g., Opera is still building their packages for 2.95.4 and
> > libc.so.4 and there are lots of packages I'm using off-the-site and
> > wouldn't ever bother to recompile them. So, what about it? Thanks.
> 
> ...so was the answer YES or NO?

YES, with the exception of locale support, for which the answer is NO.

Joerg





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