Subject: Re: [Release] 0.7.13 is ready to go
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 10:20:32 CST
> > >
>
> > >Well, we don't suffer from any of the problems caused by RH7, AFAIK.
> > >But we usually ship different binaries for them, cause they use a
> > >different RPM version. We shall see.
> >
> > I sure did. Release binaries for other distros/versions of RH don't
>work,
> > iconv's byte order is backwards, and of casts were required to get Abi
>to
> > build, etc...
>
>I was under the impression that the entire i386 C++ ABI was different for
>'2.96'. If that's true, I don't see how we can work on RH7 and others with
>the same binaries (though perhaps static linking to the C++ libraries would
>work). I'm not, however, in a position to test any of this and back my
>opinions up at the moment, so I should perhaps be quiet :-)
Jamie, you're 100% correct. That's why I wrote "Release binaries for other
distros/versions of RH don't work" because of the g++/libstdc++ ABI
breakage(losing both forwards and backwards compatibility). I'll provide RH7
GTK, Gnome & Gnome+pspell packages plus a RPM4 SRPM.
Dom
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