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In a message dated 2/16/99 9:25:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, chad@Gneiss.geology.wisc.edu writes: << After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do not work correctly. 'who' and other programs that are looking for users, like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users. Strangely enough, when an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk. I remember seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find them again. Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is misdirected. -Chad >> I'm sure I'm a minority opinion, but I went the other way, seeing that egcs/g77 is closer to bullet-proof running under libc5. As others have seen, egcs somehow detects the gnulibc1 possibility when you have some of each present, and that hasn't bothered me. When a package dependent on libc5 doesn't run, I re-install it, and so far that seems to work, without impacting egcs. The mysterious consequences of mixing varieties under linux (not to mention Windoze).