Re: Installation of Informix 9.30 on Linux RH 9.0

Guido Stepken <stepken@little-idiot.de> writes: > RedHat seems to have changed a lot in glibc the last 2-3 month, so > that there is no real binary compatibility with older binaries. Pitty. > Reasons are some security fixes in RPC, changes in international > language packages, which have to do with unicode, pango, etc.. > I fear, there will be no way of return. SUN/HP still seems to be able > to keep binary compatibility .... The only significant change to glibc (that you failed to mention) was the addition of NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library). The previous pthread implementation was not POSIX compliant in several areas (type "NPTL" into Google and click on "I'm Feeling Lucky" for all the gory details). The new NPTL scales a lot better than the old on SMP systems. And even SUN/HP couldn't make a POSIX-compatible library binary compatible with a previous non-POSIX-compatible implementation. What was once really broken is now fixed. Time to move forward. Some of the other issues encountered in RHL9 (such as the infamous "errno" warning) are porting issues in IDS. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B