Re: binary compatibility

Eric Preston ([email protected]) said: 
> 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.

Statically linked binaries still dlopen() nss modules for
gethostbyname(), etc. If those aren't there, they will fail.

Bill