[techtalk] Glibc

Laurel Fan lf25+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Oct 13 23:33:54 EST 1999


Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 [techtalk] Glibc by Just This Girl at gte.net 
> I installed Slackware 4.0, then I upgraded my kernel from 2.2.6 to
> 2.2.12.
>  
> What am I going to break if I install glibc2?

Nothing, if you do everything right, and if your system is set up such
that you are able to do everything right.  Almost everything, if you
mess up.

Anything linked against libc5, which is probably almost every program,
will break if you get rid of libc5.  The key is to not get rid of
anything from libc5 (this is nontrivial, since /lib/libc.so.5 is not the
only library from libc5 :)), while putting libc6 (aka glibc2), in the
right place.  A lot of distributions include libc5 in addition to libc6,
so it is possible.
  
You probably want to read the Glibc2 HOWTO, though this is probably
slightly out of date wrt version numbers, etc.

> I am finding that several programs I would like to use, like StarOffice,
> require glibc2, but claim that I do not have such.

That's annoying.  If it were open source, you could get someone to
compile it statically linked for you...


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