Redhat and Debian (and Stampede?) use glibc2 (libc6), while other dists, including SuSE are still libc5 (glibc1). SuSE is switching to glibc2 with SuSE 6.0. libc5/glibc2 are the c libraries used by your compiler, and something you shouldn't mess with unless you do your homework about making them coexist. It's much easier to let your dist do that for you, and SuSE will have glibc2 binary support in the soon to be released 5.3 Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Michael,
As I understand this, the libc.so.6 etc., are used in another (popular) distribution. I must confess I don't understand exactly what these lib?.so.? files do for you. I know that messing with them can have fatal consequences on any Unix box. I also know that I have had to upgrade them at times to get newer software to work. What the heck are lib?.so.? ? Can you give me a brief rundown on what these do? I guess I cannot use the glibc2 files on S.u.S.E?
Can you point me to a good source (FAQ) on these issues?
TIA,
Steve
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