Re: upgrading glibc on Debian ?
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:14:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 15:37, David Z Maze wrote:
> > But compiling the C library, which really every program on your system
> > depends upon at least indirectly, is hairy, if you screw it up your
> > system will be unusable, and convincing programs to use a random
> > installation of it can be tricky. Why do you think you want to do
> > this? Do you think it will be easier than upgrading to Debian testing
> > or unstable, with the associated pitfalls?
>
> How hazardous or full of dependancies would this be:
> # CC=gcc-3.2
> # CFLAGS='-Wall -O2 -march=athlon'
> # apt-get --compile source libc6='2.3.1-16'
> # dpkg -i <.....>
Still a considerable pain. Consider why libdb1-compat exists, just as
one example ...
David's right. Why not just upgrade the whole distribution? At least
then you'd be running a combination of software that other people have
tested to at least some extent, rather than being a guinea-pig all by
yourself.
Furthermore, the reason why most people want to upgrade libc6 is to
install packages that depend on newer versions of it. In that case,
building a newer glibc from source is exactly the wrong answer; you
should build the packages in question from source instead.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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