glibc version

[C M Reinehr]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 08:50, Michael Hipp wrote:
> What's the definitive way to determine what version of glibc I'm running?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

Well, if you were using Debian or one of it's derivatives you could just type:
dpkg -l 'libc6*'

For example:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version                   Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-13etch4         GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries

or you could type:
ls -l /lib/libc*

For example:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1282008 2007-08-16 18:30 /lib/libc-2.3.6.so
...

Or, perhaps, type:
ldd --version

For example:
ldd (GNU libc) 2.3.6
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

HTH!

cmr
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