Description of problem: gcc produces binaries that cannot be run on previous Fedora, or on RHEL. This can easily be fixed by changing --hash=gnu to --hash=both in the specfile. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gcc-4.1.1-51.fc6 How reproducible: Compile a binary on FC6. Try running it on FC5 or RHEL. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
That's intentional. Generally, you can't run binaries/libraries on older releases either, due to glibc/libstdc++/libgcc etc. symbol versioning or older SONAMEs of libraries on the older distributions. So, if you want to create binaries/libraries usable on older distributions, you need to have that in mind and either build them in a chroot containing the oldest distribution you want to support, or using e.g. a compatibility gcc and glibc. compat-gcc-34 in FC6 e.g. defaults to -Wl,--hash-style=sysv and therefore what it generates is, as long as it is linked against compatibility glibc and other compatibility libraries (and compiled against compatibility headers) should be usable on (some) older releases. -Wl,--hash-style=gnu is intentional, it makes the allocated part of binaries/libraries quite a bit smaller and requiring less memory at runtime.
Forgot to say, this is mentioned in FC6 release notes.