Hans Hagen wrote:
Duncan Hothersall wrote:
I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I have on my linux box. Eek.
indeed annoying (and depressing); it also means that you cannot copy an old tree to a new linux installation (this is what i found out recently); on windows, one does not have this problem (since it carries previous versions of libraries); i don't know how sensitive macosx is for updates
It is precisely the same situation as Win98 refusing to run WinXP binaries. (except it doesn't outright refuse that, it just makes them crash unexpectedly and unexplainably) But I grant that it is annoying ;-) Greetings, Taco