glibc and RedHat 8.0

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 08:19 pm, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
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> Should you care? I don't know. Remember GCC 2.96? Or, how 'bout good
> ole glibc 2.0.7? Better question: what does Red Hat 8.0 have than you
> just have to have? Better still: can you build it yourself without
> upgrading the rest of your system?

Building glibc myself has gotten me in the predicament I'm currently in. Which 
is an installed glibc that allows my system to run fine, but as far as 
*compiling* anything, it's unusable. Makes it tough to test the development 
versions of GNUCash when I can't compile  :-(

So.. to answer the question regarding what RH 8.0 has that I need? Nothing 
that I can't get from Suse 8.1, Slackware 8.1, Mandrake 9.0 or *any* of the 
latest distro's available. A modern glibc and gcc...

I think, though, that I'll stay away from RH 8.0 for the time being and see 
what shakes out over the next few weeks (besides, I'm hoping that installing 
a newer binutils will fix my compile problems...)

Regards, 
Tim

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