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Re: [ecs] Linux help needed with GLIBC "dependency hell" Neil Cherry Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:34:20 -0400

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Mark Gilmore wrote:
> re "I have drivers that I maintain that are different for both":
> that was an enticing statement screaming for elaboration !
> is this something you do as a user, or as a distributor ?

Hmm, I'm both, these are open source and they are drivers
I use. I have 4 or five devices. Each has a driver for x86
Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.6 kernels. I may end up with a set
of driver for the ARM Linux 2.4 kernel. The drivers are a
kernel issue and I learned that the hard way when I've
upgraded from the 2.4 to the 2.4 kernel.

> where did you learn to do this ?

 From experience more than anything, sort of intuition from dealing
with Unix software since 1985. It's almost sounds like something
is being compiled specifically for the kernel. Are you using shared
libraries which I think is the default for most compiles?

Oh before you get mad at Linux this is a GCC/GLIBC issue than
Linux. It's not a kernel issue and I've been bitten by this when
we jumped from Linux kernel 1.2 to 2.0 and 2.0 to 2.3. This occurred
during times of change within the GCC compiler.

I'm not sure who to go to but I'd recommend going to the
newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
or comp.os.linux.development.system . My expertise is more getting
things to work rather than supporting commercial apps.

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