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Re: libc versioning question

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From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject	Re: libc versioning question
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Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> writes:
> Cat22 wrote:
>>    I have a (precompiled) program that requires libc 2.11 but i only
>> have libc 2.10. Is it practical or even possible to put the 2.11 files
>> in some directory then run the program using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> environment variable so it would use the 2.11 versions? I dont think you
>> can just upgrade libc and libstdc++ on my system without wreaking havoc
>> can you? I do some C programming from time to to time, but I have not
>> had to really ever consider the versions of these libs in the past so I
>> just dont know what can or cant be done there.
>> Thanks
>> Cat22
>
> Upgrading libc 2.10 to libc 2.11 (a minor version upgrade) should not cause 
> any issues.

The problem with this is that the outcome of such an experiment isn't
known until after it was conducted and it is not usually reversible.

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libc versioning question Cat22 <cat22@invalid.org> - 2012-02-26 15:51 -0800
  Re: libc versioning question Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2012-02-27 12:31 +0000
    Re: libc versioning question Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-02-27 16:15 +0000
      Re: libc versioning question Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2012-02-27 17:23 +0000
        Re: libc versioning question Cat22 <cat22@invalid.org> - 2012-02-28 00:49 -0800
        Re: libc versioning question Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-28 09:24 +0000
        Re: libc versioning question Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-02-28 14:47 +0000
  Re: libc versioning question John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2012-02-28 08:06 -0800

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