On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:11:42AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I've been distracted by revenue production for a couple of months. > > Are we expected to upload our packages rebuilt for glibc2.1? > > It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can > drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you have a program that depends on certain > internal stuff which it shouldn't be using anyway). > > Really, what is more important and has changed is CC from gcc272 to > egcs. But again, it would probably be nice to recompile sometime over > then next two months, but not really necessary AFAIK. Seems that for libs it's a VERY GOOD IDEA to rebuild. I've seen a number of examples of bad things happening with mixed glibc2.0 and glibc2.1 libs. I think the problems stem from gcc2.7/egcs, but they exist all the same. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <SirDibos> does Johnie Ingram hang out here on IRC?
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