glibc 2.9

[Zsbán Ambrus]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> wrote:
> in general, glibc itself has no forward compatibility,

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, jamal <hadi at cyberus.ca> wrote:
> I cant recompile on every possible permutation of eglibc/uclibc/glibc
> unfortunately - so that idea is dead on arrival.
> We may have to put specific versions of the libc's as a dependency
> on the debian packages.

How about backwards compatibility?  Could you compile the program only
on a system with the older glibc version, and run it on a system with
newer glibc?

Ambrus