Jerry McBride babbled on about: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:49:30 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I feel kinda dumb replying to my own messages... but if it helps anyone > interested in upgrading their glibc files... what the hey? > > Anyways... there's a lot of gotchas' in doing this madness that rally makes > me wonder if it's really for the "do it yourself-er" type of guy/gal... > > I've just recovered a laptop that I clobbered dead as nails by atempting an > glibc upgrade on. What went wrong, I'll never know as the install process > just stopped about half way through and the laptop never came back from > wonderland. The only... and I stress the "only" thing that saved my can was > my paranoia way of making backups before I try this kind of stuff. Lucky > for me I had enough room on the flopper to make a complete copy of /lib > before updating. Why this one failed, when on the desktop atempt was such a > huge success is beyond me. Needless to say, after the flopper died, I > rebooted via a recovery floppy, nuked /lib and installed the backup I made. > > The laptop is alive and well again. > > The only difference between the desktop and laptop is... the desktop was a > totally clean install of workstation 3.1. The laptop was upgraded from 2.40 > to workstation 3.1 via the "upgrade option" on the cdrom. General > configurations are the same. One small problem I encountered on the laptop > early on was a bogus LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting... something, somewhere added > a single ":" to the end of the variable line in bashrc... Don't know who, > but wasn't me... ;'). Anyway, editing that ":" out configure was able to > understand my machine and ran without errors as did make... Wierd. > > I'll try this one again sometime. Maybe this weekend. > > As for using "make install" to install glibc-2.2.4... it leaves the > previous 2.2.1 libraries intact... I haven't figured out how yet, but it > seems you should be able to use these libraries if the older versions were > needed. > > That being said... I think I'm done with the major portion of my glibc > upgrade. If anyone would like to see my notes... I can write this up as a > very expiremental step by step. > > Cheers all, and good night.
please write it all up and send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net The software said it requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
