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Aras Pranckevičius · 8w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq8dutv4zwlqxmn9vm0p6wrye44mrghau5ytzdjk2vhjc7fdph6sysg5c3sc would executables from 2009 still work today on a Mac? (I guess "obviously not"). How ...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... On Linux it's basically "has any of the libraries changed the ABI since the release". ICU does this like once a week, so your best bet is static linking. The usual glibc problems are in the reverse direction, so that doesn't apply here.

I think I have recentlish tried to run mtv binary from 2000 or thereabouts, and it did work. mtv, as in the commercial mpeg1 player application, not to be confused with mpv.