[MPlayer-dev-eng] RPM package for next release - RH7.2/7.3 glibc issue

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 03:49:46AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:37, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I've upgraded from RH7.2 to 7.3. Just today my friend with 7.2 had problems
> > installing my freshly compiled RPM. It turns out that the new glibc-2.2.5
> > package in 7.3 provides a dependency that's not in 7.2's glibc.
> > And since mplayer gets linked against glibc (obviously :->), we have
> > a problem - the packages I build from now on won't install on 7.2.
> 
> Strange, I thought different glibc subversions releases must be introperable, 
> so only 2.3 would be allowed to be incompatible from 2.2.x.

This is redhat, remember, not stock glibc. Theirs is probably patched
to hell and linked against all sorts of weird stuff.

Rich