binary compatibility

I'm new to this list.

 

I've tried the search engine at
http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ia64-list/index.html numerous times
and always end up with nothing.

 

What is the story/state of binary-compatibility wrt RHL 7.2 on IA64?

 

I saw an earlier email from Jim Wilson that said that if you build on
x86 with RHL 7.2 (and copy the correct exes shared libs) all should
work. Does this mean that something built on 7.1 won't work? I've tried
the latter and it didn't work (statically linked executable; failed in
gethostbyname()), but before I jump in and get a machine built with 7.2
I want to check.

 

I'm contracting, so the company I'm working for has to decide to support
7.2, buy a machine, set it up, blah, blah, blah.

 

Thanks,

 

Eric Preston

The Middleware Company

[email protected]