Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!bam From: bam@sgi.com (Brian McClendon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: electropaint Message-ID: <1990Sep19.190850.24168@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 19 Sep 90 19:08:50 GMT References: <30E230E0BD7F0013F3@NRCNET.NRC.CA> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 19 In article tristram@conan.esd.sgi.com writes: > >seem's like IRIX 3.3 is needed to run the verson of electropaint Paul >sent out. Be patient, I guess. >-- >-- >David Tristram >tristram@sgi.com This is an important point. Executables linked with 3.3.x libgl_s.a will not run on 3.2 systems. Old executables linked with =<3.2.x libgl_s.a will work on on 3.3.x systems. This shows we support backwards binary compatibility, but not forward (depending on your sense (?)). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian McClendon bam@rudedog.SGI.COM ...!uunet!sgi!rudedog!bam 415-335-1110 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------