How to upgrade from libc.so.6 to libc.so.7

Code: 
w-sun# locate libc.so
/lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libc.so
w-sun# uname -a
FreeBSD w-sun.sgc 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:42:56 UTC 2006     root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
 
FBSDin20Steps said:
Did you install an application that needs libc.so.7 on your 6.1 RELEASE?
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Yes. In fact I wrote a small program in another box with RELEASE 7.
Now I want to run the binary file on this 6.1 box.
Although I could recompile the source file, I still want the answer "Is it possible to upgrade from libc.so.6 to libc.so.7?"
 
Recompile .. you can't make FBSD 6.1 forward compatible with FBSD 7 ..

Well, you could. By upgrading to FBSD 7 ;)
 
DutchDaemon said:
Recompile .. you can't make FBSD 6.1 forward compatible with FBSD 7 ..

Well, you could. By upgrading to FBSD 7 ;)
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Could you teach me a little more about this issue?
Why we can not upgrade libc.so.6 to libc.so.7?
I have no idea about the role of libc.so in FreeBSD.
 
This poses an interesting question, though: can you install misc/compat7x on a 6.x machine? --- My wild guess is NO.

Edit: NM, found the answer in the compat7x makefile.
Code: 
.if ${OSVERSION} < 800105
IGNORE=         is for FreeBSD 8.x and newer
.endif
 
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