Hi, This response on rereading sounds a bit harsh. I just wanted to make aware that upgrading to glibc is not a 'light' upgrade, and to point out that chances are the apps that you think have to have glibc probably do not and that it's most likely easier--depending on your experience-- to just build the apps, themselves, than to try restructuring your system's main libraries with 6.0 coming out in December. 6.0 if all goes well should take most of the 'pain' out of the transition for most users ( I hope/think). Also, if you decide to upgrade your system yourself, you will probably be 'on your own' if anything goes wrong...or if you run into problems. Anyway, I just wanted to correct myself, cause the last mail sounded like a real slam. Bye, Michael On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Michael Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mike Gorsuch wrote:
Hey guys, is there anyway to get glibc running on SuSE? I have seen several apps that require glibc, and I know SuSE doesn't have that.
What 'several apps' do you mean?
If you do decide you want to install a coexisting glibc or replace libc5 ( crazy and unneccesary IMHO ) and risk damaging your system if you make a mistake or screw it up, I'd say read the glibc how-to, and any docs it points to. That should give you enough information to compile it and get it running ( in theory ) .
I think it's much simpler to just not download the wrong rpms and to compile from sources than it is converting your S.u.S.E. libc5 box into a glibc box, especially with a version that will have been tested by Linux professionals coming out just around the corner. -M
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