On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:44:57 -0500, you wrote: >Net Llama babbled on about: >> I've started to grow rather tired of the fact that all of the boxes that >> i'm running are glibc-2.1.x based, instead of the newer (and >> quasi-standard) glibc-2.2.x. This of course means that i must always >> build from source in order to use anything, since virtually no one is >> building RPMs against glibc-2.1.x anymore. >> I've heard the nightmare trainwrecks of improperly upgrading a box from >> glibc-2.1.x to glibc-2.2.x, so i'm quite leary of doing it wrong. >> I've read the (rather outdated) SxS from Dave Bandel on upgrading glibc, >> and what i'm taking away from it is basically that i can't just do a >> standard upgrade of glibc, since every binary on my box is dependent >> upon the existing version for functionality. So, the only safe way to >> do the upgrade is to actually install the newer glibc-2.2.x side-by-side >> with the older glibc-2.1.x, and then for anything i compile in the >> future, explicitly specify that it should be compiled against >> glibc-2.2.x. >> >> So, am i right, or am i missing something? Any other gotchas? > >not really what you asked for, but since you're doing this, might as well go >2.4 ... it seems to be the most stable 2.x glibc yet from what I've seen/heard
Doug: I'd be happy to try it here if I can get glibc 2-4.4 to BUILD....I can't even get make to go....and there doesn't appear to be any support for it either as to help, so I'll post the error here in hopes that SOMEONE can get this to run and allow me to test... [root@eagle glibc-2.2.4]# ./configure --enable-add-on loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/i386/elf sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686 sysde ps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv sys deps/unix/i386 sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu sysdeps/i386/i68 6 sysdeps/i386/i486 sysdeps/i386/fpu sysdeps/i386 sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ie ee754/ldbl-96 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysd eps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for pwd... /bin/pwd checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking version of gcc... 2.95.3, ok checking for gnumake... no checking for gmake... no checking for make... make checking version of make... 3.79.1, ok checking for gnumsgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... no checking for msgfmt... msgfmt checking version of msgfmt... 0.10.35, bad checking for makeinfo... makeinfo checking version of makeinfo... 4.0, ok checking for gsed... no checking for sed... sed checking version of sed... 3.02, ok checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... (cached) no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/as is GNU as... yes checking whether /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld is GNU ld... yes checking for mig... mig configure: warning: *** These auxiliary programs are missing or too old: msgfmt *** some features will be disabled. *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. checking whether ranlib is necessary... no checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... ok checking for bash... /bin/sh checking for mawk... mawk checking for perl... /bin/perl checking for install-info... /usr/bin/install-info checking for old Debian install-info... no checking for bison... /usr/bin/bison checking for signed size_t type... no checking for libc-friendly stddef.h... yes checking whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files... no checking whether .text pseudo-op must be used... yes checking for assembler global-symbol directive... .globl checking for .set assembler directive... yes checking for .symver assembler directive... yes checking for ld --version-script... yes checking for .previous assembler directive... yes checking for .protected and .hidden assembler directive... yes checking for -z nodelete option... yes checking for -z nodlopen option... yes checking for -z initfirst option... yes checking for -Bgroup option... no checking whether cc puts quotes around section names... no checking for assembler .weak directive... yes checking for ld --no-whole-archive... yes checking for gcc -fexceptions... yes checking for DWARF2 unwind info support... static checking for __builtin_expect... no checking for local label subtraction... no checking for libgd... yes checking size of long double... 12 running configure fragment for ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux checking installed Linux kernel header files... 2.0.10 or later *** On GNU/Linux systems it is normal to compile GNU libc with the *** `linuxthreads' add-on. Without that, the library will be *** incompatible with normal GNU/Linux systems. *** If you really mean to not use this add-on, run configure again *** using the extra parameter `--disable-sanity-checks'. [root@eagle glibc-2.2.4]# [root@eagle glibc-2.2.4]# make Makeconfig:84: sysdeps/../config.make: No such file or directory Makerules:690: no file name for `include' The GNU C library has not been configured. Run `configure' to configure it before building. Try `configure --help' for more details. make: *** [sysdeps/../config.status] Error 1 Any clues from anyone out there, as I can't build gcc-3.0.2 until this works.... George ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 262 677 0766 President +1 206 374 6482 FAX Netwrx Consulting Inc. Jackson, WI USA http://www.netwrx1.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #12862186 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
