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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Keith Duthie wrote: >On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > >> I have done this about a month ago (upgraded Slackware-3.6 to glibc-2.1) >> and I'm now writting this message on this system. >Slackware 3.6 here, too. > >> You should read instructions from glibc-2.1 source archive. However be >> prepared to met more incompatibilities as mentioened there: I rebuild >> egcs, ncurses, X11 (I met incompatibilities when tried to use X11 static >> libraries from glibc2 binary archives), Qt, KDE-1.1 and many many other things. >I'm probably going to stick with the libc5 X11 binaries from the slackware >packages. And ncurses was rather obvious - after all, you can't test the >system with a kernel rebuild until you do. I'm probably not going to >bother rebuilding most stuff - mainly static libraries. > >And, of course, I did read instructions. Nowhere did it state that at the >end of 'make install' it would crash with a message telling me to check a >bunch of stuff unrelated to the problem. > >> Now I have working system (however I haven't rebuilt all) >I've just rebuild it under itself with the glibc2.1 egcs I built. I've got >it on a chrooted partition, so I can test it without killing my system or >having to reboot :-) > >But the question is: was it an egcs or a glibc2.1 bug? Perhaps none of them. Question which prefix did You use for glibc-2.1. I used /usr to replace existing installation.