Re: RH50 (was Re: linux-ipsec: Latest snapshot...)

Henry Spencer enscribed thusly:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > I found the "RH50" define in the pluto Makefile...

> What we really want is a symbol that goes the *other* way, e.g. RH42,
> since we're going to be shifting operations to RH 5.1 (and perhaps
> eventually other Glibc-6 systems) relatively soon. The default should be
> the future, not the past, especially since we don't have a large installed
> base yet.

        Good point...

> That being the case, I'd say that RH42 is probably as good as any name for
> the symbol.

        That "could" be confusing to Slackware, Debian, or SuSE users. Then again, maybe not. RedHat was the first one to convert to Glibc. Some of the others (not sure which) are still on Libc5.

> Henry Spencer

        Mike

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