YDL 3, kernel 2.6 & glibc

[Shawn Protsman]

Kevin,

What version of glibc are you running now?

My box:

[sprotsman@pyro sprotsman]$ rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-devel-2.3.1-51a
glibc-common-2.3.1-51a
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.24
glibc-2.3.1-51a

Shawn

On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 18:22 US/Central, Kevin Roettger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I compiled a 2.6 kernel a few hours ago, and it works not so bad (once
> I found out the modutils thing). My question is about the "userland"
> and more specifically glibc.
> Well, after upgrading the kernel, I realized glibc is a bit out-dated
> for my specific needs, so I would like to upgrade it to something like
> 2.2 or 2.3, but neither yum nor apt-get provide it.
> So to make it short, it there a more or less safe way to upgrade it
> (wihout breaking all dependencies and all that stuff) ? Just compiling
> it myself and/or installing a rpm looks a bit risky to me.
>
> Many thanks for any answer :)
>
> Kevin