Hi, On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:50:53 +0100 Philipp Thomas <.> wrote:
JCVALIERE@unog.ch [Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:44:53 +0100]:
I'm running SLES 8 with kernel 2.4.21-273 and glibc-2.2.5.-233.
If this is really the glibc, don't recompile it unless you're willing to recompile your complete system. glibc is the base on which almost *all* other packages build. So unless you're an expert and exactly know what you're doing, do not even think about recompiling glibc.
When I try to recompile glibc I got an error because the <gd.h> <gdfonts.h> <gdfontl.h> and <gd_io.h> file is not found.
I followed your discussion, and would like to ask something in (not so tight) relation to this topic. On the install media of 9.1 I ride now, there is a "normal" /suse/i586/ folder, containing among many others glibc/db rpms: all having "SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586)" set as their distribution. There are few other rpms, sitting in /suse/i686/, tagged differently: db-4.2.52-86.i686.rpm SUSE SLES-9 (i686) db-devel-4.2.52-86.i686.rpm SUSE SLES-9 (i686) glibc-2.3.3-93.i686.rpm SUSE Linux 9.0.42 (i686) glibc-devel-2.3.3-97.i686.rpm SUSE SLES-9 (i686) I simply couldn't find out, what these are... Is it "secure" enough to use these latter rpms for a normal "SuSE Linux 9.1 (i686)" to achive higher optimization for the i686 CPU? Or actually could somebody explain me please, why these rpms are there, I mean who and why could install them? Many thanks, Pelibali