Re: Slink to potato upgrade

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

   "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr> writes:

   > I've been following this thread with interest, and from what I've understood
   > so far, if I use glibc as its _documentation_ says it should be used, I
   > shouldn't have any trouble; the problems arise when I use what glibc 2.0
   > _used_ to provide (but wasn't a _documented_ interface) but no longer does.
   > It's bad programming practice, it's true, but it's also true that it breaks
   > people's systems.  And that we should avoid.  That means _considering_ the
   > possibility of changing the soname, but also means _not_ doing it on our own
   > because that would render potato into a useless development plataform (in
   > some situations you can't _afford_ to recompile everywhere, you need to
   > provide compiled binaries)

   Standard Unix lex produces C source code which does not compile under
   glibc2.1.  

could you elaborate a bit, please?

What is the source of conflict? Name conflict or what?

thanks

OK