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:

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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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Mike Gorsuch wrote:

Thanks for the reply, I didn't take it harshly the first time. I was just curious as to what kinda work would be involved in upgrading a system to glibc, or if you could run both libraries at the same time. These may be very STUPID questions, I just didn't know the answer to them.

If you just want to run some apps that require the glibc libraries, but not compile with them, you can get the glibc rpm that contains the runtime libraries. It runs alot of the glibc stuff. Give it a try. It won't interfere with your libc5. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>