Are glibc libraries forward compatible ?

Libu · 01-27-2005, 11:49 PM

I recently updated to gtk2.6+ and for this I had to update the glibc package also. The after effect of this was that quite a bit of applications stopped working ! Gaim, firefox, xmms to name a few.. They started working once i reinstalled them (the same versions !!)

Now why is this happening ? Is this the expected behaviour when libraries are updated ?

voyciz · 01-28-2005, 07:10 AM

I've heard of other people having problems with this as well. I reccomend upgrading the applications that don't work.

Libu · 01-28-2005, 07:26 AM

I have done that... and the applications do start working. What was funny is that in some cases i just reinstalled the same version once more thats all !! So that means it works with the latest library as well ( but they refuse to work after the libraries get updated !!! )
Is this an application problem or the library problem ?

voyciz · 01-28-2005, 08:07 AM

Did you use ldconfig after upgrading the libraries?

Libu · 01-30-2005, 11:43 PM

I did after installing glibc, but not after gtk !! Could that have been the problem ?

voyciz · 01-31-2005, 07:57 AM

Could be....check.