libc changes and freebsd-4 compatible binaries

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:44:41AM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> On 3 May 2005 11:41, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:25:22AM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> > > > YES, with the exception of locale support, for which the answer is NO.
> > >
> > > Why so?
> >
> > The disk format of the locale description changed.
> 
> But I've thought that applications are insulated from things like disk format 
> of locale description?

The libc has to read it, but the old libc has not been modified to read the
new format (which would be quite a lot of work). The applications themself
don't touch the locale definitions at all.

Joerg