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Re: Changing glibc and linux after a crosstool build

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: crossgcc at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:58:05 +0000
Subject: Re: Changing glibc and linux after a crosstool build
References: <4374E1E6.7080501@overnetdata.com>

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:24:38PM +0000, Anthony Wright wrote:
> What I'm worried about is the code that gcc etc. produce for a platform 
> being specific to the glibc or linux version it was built against, which 
> sounds like a really silly thing to let happen and probably means this 
> is a really stupid question, but the dependency on the target glibc has 
> kinda confused me.

as long as you follow an upgrade path you shouldnt have any problems

glibc and linux are forward compatible ... you can build something against 
say glibc-2.3.2 and linux-2.4.10 and have it work with glibc-2.3.6 and 
linux-2.6.14
-mike

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