[SunHELP] Building on Solaris

[Mike's List]

Maybe I'm thinking Sparc <--> X86 architecture??? not compatible.
I always thought you have to recompile everything to work, maybe
this was playing safe recommendations that I received...

See, learned something new today ;)


- Mike


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Mike's List wrote:
> 
> | Programs on Solaris are not forward/backward compatible.  You cannot
> | compile a program under Solaris 6 and run under 8 or vice versa.
> 
> err? what are you talking aobut? I run app compiled under 2.6 and even
> 2.5.1 just fine on Solaris 8. Sun even says here:
> 
> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/ds-sol8oe/
> 
> that solaris 8 is backwards compatible. Of course, if your program deal
> with the lower levels of the OS, compatability issues may arise, but for
> your typical app, there is complete backwards compatibility.
> 
> Running a sol8 binary on 2.6 or even 7, however, is not guaranteed, and
> I've run into problems first-hand trying this.
> 
> /dale
> 
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