Mixing 3.5 and 3.51

[Tom Tkacik]

In article <5794 at amc-gw.amc.com>, jwbirdsa at amc-gw.amc.com (James Birdsall) writes:
>    If so, what would happen if I took my present all-3.5 system and 
> installed a 3.51m kernel? From Chris's results, it should work, except that
> I'd still be using the 3.5 development system, which sounds questionable.

It should work with no problem.  You'd be still using the 3.5 development
set.  So!  The only place, that I can think of, where the kernel and
development set may interact is with the shared libraries.

Other than that they should be independent.  If you are using 
shcc (the shared library C compiler), you should tell it that you still
have version 3.5 of the shared libraries.

Other than that I can't think of any reason why you should have any
trouble mixing 3.5 foundation set, 3.5 development set, and a 3.51m kernel.

As Chris also mentioned, his machine stopped panicing after he made
the change.  Sounds like 3.51m kernel works better with 3.5 'other stuff'
that the 3.5 kernel did. :-)

>    Since Chris's 3.5 utilities worked, the 3.5 libraries may still be
> valid, too. But it would be nice if somebody who knows could hold forth
> on the subject.

Just remember that you are using the 3.5 utilites and libraries.
If for any reason it is important, you must not forget.
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