Incompatibilities in upgrading to libc6 2.5

2007-05-19 Thread John Zoidberg
Hi, I'm running a Debian system with glibc6 2.3, but I'm stuck (i.e. I'm unable to install TeX and friends) unless I upgrade to glibc 2.5. This would be no problem if I didn't have to run commercial software (including a cross compiling toolchain) that was dinamically linked to glibc 2.3. I

Re: Incompatibilities in upgrading to libc6 2.5

2007-05-19 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 5/19/07, John Zoidberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a Debian system with glibc6 2.3, but I'm stuck (i.e. I'm unable to install TeX and friends) unless I upgrade to glibc 2.5. This would be no problem if I didn't have to run commercial software (including a cross compiling toolchain)

Re: Incompatibilities in upgrading to libc6 2.5

2007-05-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:47:00PM +0100, John Zoidberg wrote: So, does all the software linked to 2.3 also works with 2.5? yes and no. Yes everything *cleanly* linked against 2.3 should work with 2.5. *though* LD_ASSUME_KERNEL won't work with a version smaller than 2.6.1 and libc 2.5. So if