linux-kernel - Re: glibc vs 2.6/2.4

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:17:04 +0400
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@...il.com>
CC:	Kernel Linux <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: glibc vs 2.6/2.4

Yakov Lerner wrote:
> Can I build recent glibc such that it will work both on
> 2.6 and on 2.4 ? (multithreading-wise, I suppose). I tried
> to boot recent 2.6-based distro with 2.4 kernel and it did not work.
> 
> Do I need to set some env.vars maybe (LD_ASSUME_KERNEL ?
> GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION ?) for glibc when I switch kernels ?

Recent GLIBC README files mentions this explicitly: it does not
work with kernel 2.4 and earlier, for which, one have to use
glibc 2.3.

/mjt
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