upgrading glibc on COL 3.1

[Man-wai Chang]

> Yes, but what gcc version are you trying to use to build what version
> of glibc?  IIRC, certain gcc versions are required to build certain
> glibc versions and vice versa, so you may need to build intermediate
> versions to bring this all the way up-to-date.

I was using gcc-3.2.3 to build the glibc-2.3.4.

> Can you not just install a fedora glibc and gcc then build special
> from there if you need to?

I am contemplating the idea of upgrading the old glibc in my COL 3.1 
home server. So I am using spare harddisk to install COL 3.1 from 
scratch and test the idea of building glibc from source, following your 
instructions.


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