glibc compatibility

[Paul Howarth]

T. Horsnell wrote:
> We have an application (for which we no longer have the source)
> which was compiled against glibc-2.0.0. This worked OK on systems
> up to and including FC4, but on FC5 and above it now complains:
> 
> relocation error: /scr0/superfam/binary/hmmscore_3.2: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
> 
> Is this a glibc problem or are we expecting too much of upward-compatibilty?

Looks rather like the LinuxThreads issue; support for LinuxThreads was 
dropped in FC5 after they'd been deprecated since at least RHL9.

Paul.