--- Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you mentioned, the latest kernel > didn't want to boot, so > there again I backed up a couple notches and got a > working one, but > everything else I had merged since then, notably > including all of KDE > 3.5.5, merged against glibc-2.5, seems to be working > great against > glibc-2.4-r4, which as it happens was merged only a > couple weeks earlier > -- actually that's probably my saving grace or I'd > likely have had more > issues. Probably the explanation that KDE did not break is that it does not directly link to glibc. C++ programs usually only link to libstdc++ which in turn is linked to glibc, so you would only have problems with C++ applications if you recompile gcc with the new glibc and then downgrade.
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