Red Hat converted to glibc almost a year ago (RH 5.0). This is the main
reason 5.0 was considered difficult to use. With Red Hat 5.2, though,
everything seems pretty well sorted. Red Hat just chose to endure the
pain earlier rather than later.
- Scott
Markus Mohr wrote:
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> On Thu, 07 Jan 1999, you, Kim C. Callis, wrote on the topic of [SuSE Linux] Libc5
>and glibc2:
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> >I have been using 5.3 of SuSE. I noted that there was extensive use of libc5 in
> >this version, but the glib stuff was located on the system as well... I was
> >wondering if there was any easy way to make the transistion over to glib
> >(libc6) without breaking everything... I am tired of seeing messages like the
> >following:
>
> Watch out! The updating process from 5.3 to 6.0 is absolutely easy and
> well-organized, but there is a hell of a lot of problems concerning the
> launching of non-source-code (e. g. commercial) libc5-based programs under the
> glibc-installed 6.0!
>
> Here in Germany, nobody yet realized the whole extent of potential and actual
> problems from this migration. I wonder whether the RedHat people have an easier
> approach to this, though ...
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Markus Mohr
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