glibc-2.2.5

[Douglas J Hunley]

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m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> I just tried compiling glibc-2.2.5 from source using a dummy COL 3.1.
> I noticed that on the first make install, the localedata was not
> installed (as revealed by checkinstall).

you have to use 'checkinstall make install localedata/install-locales'

and, BTW glibc-2.3 is out

>
> also, the make install will always failed on libpthread,  I must reboot
> to run make install again to really finish the installation process,
> which will give me a usable part-1 glibc-2.2.5.rpm

no issues here.
>
> if I run make install-locale now, it will compile more stuffs. is this
> what's supposed to be going on?

yes

>
> also, if is it possible to remove the old glibc before compiling and
> intsallating the new glibc? sounds like a chicken-and-egg issues (gcc
> doesn't allow that).

nope.
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