>>>>> Tim Hillman writes:
Tim> Is there A HOWTO or web site that discusses upgrading one version of glibc
Tim> to another ? The only ones I can find deal with moving from libc5 to libc6
Tim> which I have already done successfully.
Tim> I am currently running glibc-2.0.7pre6 on debian 2.1. I obtained the
Tim> sources to glibc-2.1.2, compiled ok with gcc-2.95.1, I then did make
Tim> install to /lib and /usr/lib.
Tim> At that point, I thought the proper thing to do was to move the symlinks
Tim> from the old libraries to the new ones (and the ld-linux.so.2 link to the
Tim> new loader).
What are you doing? If you configure with --prefix=/usr, glibc should
create the correct symlinks for you.
Tim> Kaboom!
Tim> None of my existing binaries work. They all complain of the same
Tim> undefined symbol (It escapes me at the moment, but I will re-create it and
Tim> get the exact name if I didn't go about this the wrong way).
Please read the FAQ first. Most problems are documented there.
Tim> Is 2.0.7 binary compatible with 2.1.2 ?
Programs (not all libraries) which don't use the internal symbols of
glibc and were compiled against glibc 2.0.7, should work with 2.1.2.
You might need to recompile some libraries as documented in the FAQ.
Andreas
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