how to add a new glibc symbol ?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 12/3/2003 9:33 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Jerry McBride wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 02 December 2003 09:36 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>---snip---
> >>
> >>>>http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-089.html"
> >>>>
> >>>>After visiting the above url, I get the impression you have to upgrade
> >>>>your glibc again...
> >>>
> >>>Upgrade it to what though?  I'm at glibc-2.3.2 now, so there isn't
> >>>anything newer.
> >>
> >>Which point release are you using and is there a newer one than that?
> >
> >
> > Point release?  I don't understand the question.  glibc-2.3.2 is the only
> > release I see from Gnu.
> >
>
> I guess he's referring to how many distro's, especially RPM-based
> distro's, release multiple versions of the same glibc version. Currently
> fedora's glibc-2.3.2 is
> $ rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.3.2-101.1
>
> Which has several patches that may, or may not, be part of the released
> glibc provided by gnu. At least that's how I understand how it works...

Ahhh, ok.  Well, that doesn't apply to me, since i built glibc-2.3.2 from
the official source, not any distro packaging.

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