[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Bill Wohler wrote:
>> Robert Jerrard writes:
>> > WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version
>> > 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it
>> > before installing glibc.
>>
>> Does this imply that lenny will not support 2.4 at all?
>
> Correct. Linux 2.4 support has been dropped post Etch.
>
>> Since the kernel for this particular system (a vserver) is not under
>> my control and I don't expect it to be upgraded anytime soon if ever
>> this would be bad.
>
> That could be a problem. The calls made by libc will in some cases
> require a linux 2.6 kernel.
Any thoughts on which cases?
>> Taking a quick look, I see that glibc isn't installed on this system
>> either, so maybe I'm OK?
>
> In Debian the glibc package name is libc6 or libc6.1 or libc0.1 or
> possibly other things depending upon the architecture. There are
> probably many different ways to deduce this but these are useful.
>
> dpkg -S /lib/libc.*
> libc6: /lib/libc.so.6
>
> dpkg -l libc6'*' | grep ^ii
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:498]$ dpkg -S /lib/libc.*
libc6: /lib/libc.so.6
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:499]$ dpkg -l libc6'*' | grep ^ii
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Development Libraries
and Hea
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