Re: Freeze stuff, summary.. (perl 5.005, etc)
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
But doesn't that require glibc2.1 anyway?
Package: gcc 2.91.66-1
depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) [etc]
(Hmmm. Looks like my slink box will need to go glibc2.1 after all.)
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