David C. Rankin wrote:
Yikes!
Think of it this way, your distro was built on a certain glibc. That means the kernel, the kernel modules and all critical packages have that dependency. When you look a changing a glibc, you would essentially have to recompile a majority of what makes your distro, your distro.
Now I'd have to check, but I believe you can have several toolchains installed that can build for different versions of glibc such as building packages for multiple versions of openSUSE, etc.., but as far as you just swapping your current glibc for a newer version -- then you run into all of the dependency issues.
Is it really? I thought they are backward-compatible? And I'm quite sure I had done that before, in some ancient SUSE (likely in the 11.x days). Also to get some game running BTW :D