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Re: How safe is to go to glibc 2.1?



On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 10:28:06AM +0000, Shane King wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 12:18:12PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio did spake thusly:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 	I am upgrading my system (via apt) to have gimp 1.1 and
> > some other "on th edge" stuff. Apt wants to upgrade libc to 2.1,
> > by removing all the egcs stuff and some other packages...
> >
> > 	There are some packages that will surely break? I mean,
> > I need to compile plain C, use scheme (elk) and perl and develop
> > gimp plug-ins. Will the upgrade give me any problems?
>
> The gcc in unstable is egcs, since glibc2.1 requires egcs, the old gcc
> versions don't work properly with it I believe. I'm pretty sure apt
> will install it for you automatically.

No, actually regular gcc works fine with glibc 2.1, egcc is needed to
compile it, but not to use it.

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