Re: Which version of glibc?

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@ragnar-hojland.com)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:33:43 +0100

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:47:30AM -0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>
> Should I upgrade to glibc-2.2.5 for linux kernel compilation?
>
> I'm on gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.1.3
>
> What about gcc?

Follow Ketils advice :)

> I'm asking this now as Xfree86 is just release and it's build with glib22.

Upgrading glibc to 2.2 now is a good idea. 2.1.3 had some sort of
floating point bug, and I'm not all sure it had full support for big files.

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