upgrading glibc on COL 3.1

[Man-wai Chang]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> After a day of westling, I found that gcc-3.2.1 can compile gcc-2.3.3
>> with an upgrade of kernel to 2.4.29 first. THe glibc-2.3.3 could be
>> compiled and installed without error.
>>
>> But after installing the new glihc,
>> 1. `rpm -i package` will produce "segmentation fault"
>> 2. checkinstall-1.5.2's installwatch could no longer work
> 
> Your threading support is broken.  Methinks you didn't build glibc
> correctly, or you need to rebuild rpm against your new glibc.
> 
> 
I rebuild glibc with --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads.
rpm -i now works.
But checkinstall (1.5.2,1.5.3,1.6.0beta) still failed.
I guess my plan to upgrade the glibc on my old COL should be put on hold.

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