[svlug] libc questions

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Michael K Vance wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> First, I'm going through the glibc build process right now. Lots and lots of
> it builds properly, but then I get this:
> 
> [mvance at localhost glibc-2.0.103]$ make
> 
> [...]

First of all, it looks like you might be building it wrong.

Try this:

cd /some/dir tar xzvf /some/other/dir/glibc-2.0.103.gz
cd glibc-2.0.103
tar xzvf /some/other/dir/glibc-linuxthreads-2.0.103.gz # whatever is latest
tar xzvf /some/other/dir/glibc-crypt-2.0.103-gz # or whatever is latest
mkdir mybuilddir
cd mybuilddir
../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons=yes #don't forget to look at the options!
make
make install
 
> Additionally, how dangerous is it to remove the RedHat v5.0 libc5
> compatability libraries from my machine? I haven't installed anything that
> requires them, so I guess I'm interested in what the baseline installation
> requires of it. A simple 'rpm -q --whatrequires libc' didn't turn anything up
> (though it never seems to...).


The only thing in RH Linux 5.x that uses the old libc5 libraries is
netscape. If you don't use netscape, and don't plan on installing libc
binaries, it *should* be safe to remove it. Personally speaking, I haven't
done it yet, but I plan to in the future.

The bigger question is this:

Why are you trying to install the glibc 2.1 alpha releases? Do you need
some feature that only they have? If you don't need them, it it highly
recommeneded that you live with glibc 2.0.

davez


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