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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Stephen Clement wrote:
> > It doesn't recognize the binary because its an ELF
> > binary, not a.out.

> It doesn't recognize the binary because Slackware 7.1
> binaries are glibc2, and BL3 has libc5.  Both glibc2
> and libc5 are ELF.  The a.out binaries were pre-libc5.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

I am planning to put BL3 with perl from SW3.2 on a 486 with 12MB RAM and a 
huge 350MB hard drive.  I first put it onto a pentium as a test (it 
worked, after pkg'ing perl1.tgz, perl2.tgz and libdb.so from libc.tgz) and 
some of the files are in a directory labelled i586-....  Does this mean I 
cannot use this version of perl on a 486?  If so, does SW2 have a version 
that would work or would it be a.out instead of ELF?  When did SW switch 
to libc5?  How did they manage to get through libc1-4 before SW3?