Filepro 4.8 and Linux kernel 2.6

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:15:11AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Cal Robinson (Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:40:40 -0400):
> > I'm currently running FilePro 4.8 on Redhat 8. At this time I cannot
> > upgrade Filepro. I am interested in switching to fedora core 3,
> > which runs a 2.6 kernel. On my test machine I get as far as user
> > menus and then nothing. My screen flickers and thats it.
> >
> > Is it possible to run 4.8 with the linux 2.6 kernel?
>
> I know that when RedHat 9 came out, they had made some change that
> made it incompatible with some older binaries, including filePro. I do
> not know if that change was something RH-specific, or kernel-related.
> It may be that Fedora Core 3 has the same incompatibility.

I had this problem with a 5.0 release on 2.6.  If I remember correctly
what Mark said, it's to do with static vs dynamic library linking, and
no, it's unlikely that you'll get 4.8 to run on 2.6, absent possibly
major library wrangling the details of which I do not know.

I had a thread on this myself over last weekend; check the archive for
Mark's reply.

Cheers,
-- jra
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