[Sunhelp] packages and backward compatability

[Magnus Abrante]

Depends on how you make it, the package it self and the package system is
rather much the same on both Solaris 7 and Solaris 8, however if you 
compile a program on Solaris 8 it might not work on Solaris 7, it depends
on which libraries you include when you build the program.

Most OS are backward compatibile, a program compiled on 2.6 will usually 
work on 7 and 8, having it to work the other way around would be quite
impossible.

So: package system - yes; binaries - depends. Also it depends on how you
create the package.

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */


> Can anyone tell me if Solaris 8 has full backwards compatabilty on Solaris 7
> if i made a package on Solaris 8, would that package work the same on
> Solaris 7, or do you have to make the package on the same os as the package
> is made for? (which would seem like a bloody stupid design fault!)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Dan Cuthbert
> European Hosting Research & Engineering
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