[SunHELP] Building on Solaris

[Mike's List]

Programs on Solaris are not forward/backward compatible.  You cannot
compile a program under Solaris 6 and run under 8 or vice versa.

The keyword is compile, of course if you doing it under shell scripting or
perl, etc. then 99.99% of the time it'll run on any Solaris machine (with
the appropriate interpreter installed).


- Mike


On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Adams, Christopher wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I just have a quick question.  When building a program on Solaris which
> would be more recommended?  Building a program on Solaris 2.6 and running it
> on Solaris 8 or building a program on Solaris 8 and running it on Solaris
> 2.6.  My main question is here about compatibility, is building on Solaris
> "forward" or "backwards" compatible?
> 
> 
> Christopher Adams
> Starbase Corp.
> Tele: 714-445-4447
> 
> 
> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
> 
> --Albert Einstein
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