Upgrading gcc and glibc (agian)

[Geoff]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 07:07:01 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:

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> 
> Kurt is definitely much more of an expert on this than I.  I also
> remember reading about this, but haven't yet run into it.  This is just
> one of those forward looking issues that i've yet to experience.  There
> are no backward looking issues though.

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> Its impossible to tell you everything that needs to be recompiled, since
> there are essentially an infinite number of possibilities.  All i can
> mention are the things i've run into, which are rpm, zlib, bzip2 &
> binutils.  Thus far, everything else has worked.
> 
> If you can get gcc & glibc upgraded and still be able to go about your
> day to day activities, then you should be out of the woods.  As Kurt
> mentioned, at this time there aren't really many advantages to having
> the latest & greatest, other than having the latest & greatest.  So if
> you aren't comfortable, then don't do it.

OK, thanks for all that NL.  It seems so un-linux/*nix-like that even
basic system components cannot be updated in place with predictable
consequences .. but if that is the way things are I will have to live with
it.

Regards,

Geoff