Re: [tlug] Backward compatibility problem in RHEL5

[Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@example.com>]

> Be aware that that kind of thing will only work for a few months, a
> couple years at most.  Fairly quickly various libraries are going to
> start assuming GCC 4 compatibility, and eventually you're be stuck
> with a system you can't upgrade.
>
> Ie, sooner or later you're going to have to fix the app.

As long as syscalls don't change, a static build is always possible anyway...

I also saw yesterday a tool that builds a monolitic executable from dyn linked 
one including all needed libs. Can't remember the name.