Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
I am preparing to run an application that requires the new threading in glibc 2.1 so am about to upgrade to lx_glibc-2.1.131-7.i386.rpm from SuSE's ftp site.
This is not glibc 2.1.1 (we don't have 2.1.131, and I doubt we will ever release such a glibc version).
From the Description (rpm -qip lx_glibc): These are the kernel includes that we use to compile glibc. Basically this is a cut down include-tree of the kernel mentioned in the version of this package.
ahh, thats why I didn't recognize it. Its the kernel includes not an actual glibc upgrade.
Are there any potential problems I should look for? I'm worried about possible incompatability problems with existing SuSE packages (now running OK with globc-2.0.7) and a the newer library.
You will get problems with static linked programs like rpm and login if you really don't know what you are doing.
You need the nss-v1 glibc-add-on from my WWW page (<A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/glibc.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/glibc.html</A">http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/glibc.html</A</A>>). And after installing, you need to recompile egcs and ncurses, and you should recompile shadow (login).
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