From: Ajay Shah (ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu)
Date: 05/29/92


From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Subject: Re: Binaries compiled under older versions of linux
Date: 29 May 1992 00:20:40 -0700

probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:

>Obviously some binaries that were compiled under older version of linux wont
>work on 96a without recompilation. Granted, this should not be true, but
>it happens when both the OS and the compiler upgrade.

If it's not too much to ask, could we also promote a style where the
person who creates the binary .tar.Z includes a short note defining
the OS and compiler version he used? That would save some trouble.

(I found elvis drops core... could this be the cause?)

        -ans.

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Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu