On 0, David Abrahams <david.abrahams@rcn.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to downgrade > > from glibc 2.2.5 to glibc 2.2.2 or 2.2.4 > > and, supposedly upgrade: > > from kernel 2.2.20 to kernel 2.4 > > These don't sound like moves to be undertaken lightly, so I'd like some > guidance. Can anyone help me to get through this safely? > > The background: I have been using the Intel C++ compiler with only limited > success. I've been having problems with exceptions thrown across shared > library boundaries, and the Intel people say my problem is that I've got the > wrong Kernel and glibc. I have some doubts that the kernel is responsible, > but I guess an upgrade doesn't sound too painful. Downgrading glibc is > what's got me worried. The kernel upgrade should not be any worries at all. apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.x-yourarch The glibc downgrade is a definite worry; so far as I can make out, 2.2.5 is the current version in all of stable, testing and unstable; my stable box has 2.2.5-10 and my unstable box (which was meant to be stable before an apt-pinning mistake) has 2.2.5-12. So I don't like your chances of being able to safely downgrade. I'd suggest trying the kernel upgrade, seeing if that helps, and returning to gcc if it doesn't. Gcc is not that bad... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
Attachment:
pgpLKI8h63lPi.pgp
Description: PGP signature