Re: 5.1 vs. 6.0_BETA

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:41:17PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Feb 24, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:51:57AM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> >> After updating the system from 5.1 to 6.0_BETA I've found that a lot of
> >> applications built for 5.1 stop working due to lack of __cerror in libc.
> > 
> > Try the attached patch.
> > 
> > Joerg
> > <cerror.diff>
> 
> I'm wondering why these apps need access to __cerror since it's not
> a public ABI.

Older versions of the libraries (e.g. before the time_t bump) may still
use it. Nowadays they have a custom (hidden) copy.

Joerg