Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 16:07:32 EST


On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 04:39:06PM -0400, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> wrote:
> > I wouldn't mind, either, if this didn't mean that programs compiled
> > on rehdat need redhat versions of the development toolchain / runtime
> > environment to use them :(
>
> Has happened on and off with each distribution I've ever played with. The
> point being?

That what you say is simply not true, so what's _your_ point in claiming
this?

One never needed suse's or redhat's glibc to run binaries created on their
platforms. Likewise one never needed their libstdc++ or their toolchain,
the official ones (released by the official maintainers) always were
enough.

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