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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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Subject: Re: glibc vs 2.6/2.4
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Yakov Lerner wrote:
> Can I build recent glibc such that it will work both on
> 2.6 and on 2.4 ? (multithreading-wise, I suppose). I tried
> to boot recent 2.6-based distro with 2.4 kernel and it did not work.
> 
> Do I need to set some env.vars maybe (LD_ASSUME_KERNEL ?
> GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION ?) for glibc when I switch kernels ?

Recent GLIBC README files mentions this explicitly: it does not
work with kernel 2.4 and earlier, for which, one have to use
glibc 2.3.

/mjt