glibc advice

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Fri Oct 6 20:13:35 PDT 2006


Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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>

Now we're getting somewhere!  Is this a book I can pick up at a real 
bookstore?



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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"



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