glibc advice

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:27:53PM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
> Arrrgh!  Is this just a Caldera thing or have all of you guys lost the 
> spirit of hacking?  If I told you I wanted to upgrade SuSE 8.1 (which 
> has glibc-2.2.X) would you guys say the same thing?

It isn't a Caldera thing for me. This just isn't a hack I'd be willing to
undertake. Too much work for too little payoff. Okay, maybe it *is* a 
Caldera thing because it is "too little payoff" because OpenLinux is no 
longer something I want to get my hands dirty fixing.  That said, 
<plug mode="shameless">my co-author and I discuss how to upgrade your 
C library without turning your system into a lump of inert silicon in 
_The GCC Book_.</plug>

KUrt