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Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: richardh on October 08, 2004, 06:51:17 pm

I noted in a few places statements that suggest that backwards compatibility is broken from RC5 to what came before. If this is true, does this apply to to debian arm distro as well? I had gotten several commandline binaries from deb (i.e nmap, pkill) and was looking forward to having that massive archive to choose from. Is the compatiblity thing a lib issue or a kernel one or what?

Also, does anyone know if the feed2 for RC3 ipks is still available somewhere?

-Richard

Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: Bundabrg on October 08, 2004, 09:19:18 pm

To be honest I havn't found any backward compatibility errors. (yet)

 - Bundabrg

Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: piotrek on October 09, 2004, 02:45:33 am

Laze said in rc5 thread that incompatibility is due new way of using floating point emulation. Every program must be compiled with that option to run on RC5. As far as I understand this  

Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: Laze on October 09, 2004, 04:20:48 am

Correct..

Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: jabbath on October 09, 2004, 01:24:19 pm

Nope, that's incorrect.

I tried some of my programs originally compiled for 1.0.5 rc2,3 etc. and they ran fine.

I thought, for the "performance boost", the programs had to be recompiled.. :-??

jabbath

Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: stbrock on October 09, 2004, 01:58:44 pm

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Laze said in rc5 thread that incompatibility is due new way of using floating point emulation. Every program must be compiled with that option to run on RC5. As far as I understand this

Perhaps "every program" means "every program with floating point instructions"? I found that xmonobut from the original stable feed ran fine on RC5. It's a simple program which presumably doesn't require floating point. I would expect a modest subset of earlier programs like this may run as is without recompiling, assuming no other issues.

Title: Question on back compat of RC5
Post by: sashz on October 09, 2004, 02:11:15 pm

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Perhaps "every program" means "every program with floating point instructions"?

yes, that right, but that impossible for check every app in old feed for FPA instructions, so is much better rebuild this apps.