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Isn't that what autoconf is for?

Isn't that what autoconf is for?

Posted May 21, 2009 17:10 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: Isn't that what autoconf is for? by alex
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

This is about binary compatibility, not source compatibility. `Drop-in replacement' means that one doesn't have to compile applications anew when one exchanges one glibc for the other.


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