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- From: gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com (Greg Cagle)
- Subject: Re: HP-UX 9.0 compatibility questions.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182833.19670@news.mentorg.com>
- Sender: gcagle@dracula (Greg Cagle)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:28:33 GMT
- References: <FRANL.92Nov21131654@draco.centerline.com> <13330050@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
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- In article <13330050@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>, stevewi@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes:
- |> > Can applications built under 8.07 run under 9.0 without needing
- |> > relinking or recompilation? I recall that for the 7.0 to 8.0 upgrade
- |> > on the Series 300/400 you had the choice of recompiling the entire
- |> > application or running the 7.0 executable under 8.0, but you
- |> > absolutely were not supposed to relink 7.0 object files under 8.0.
- |> > Are there any such restrictions for the 8.07 vs 9.0?
- |>
- |> Contrary to popular belief, not all of us in HP have access to the
- |> latest and greatest stuff. I downloaded a copy of the 9.0 release
- |> notes (kindly posted by someone at Mentor Graphics) from this very
- |> notes group. I believe I read that applications compiled on HP-UX
- |> 8.0x can be run on HP-UX 9.0 without recompiling. This seems to be
- |> confirmed by some folks in Fort Collins but... (and this is a BIG BUT!)
- |>
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- We have been doing this for some time with no problems, shared libraries
- and all.
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- -- Greg
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