Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-17 Thread David Douthitt
George Metz wrote: Why I never went anywhere with mine was mostly because I sent out several e-mails to this list, and the lack of a response was almost deafening in it's silence. If I recall, not even you commented David. I assumed that people had weighed the concept and decided it wasn't

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-17 Thread Ewald Wasscher
David Douthitt wrote: Pim van Riezen wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: I must say I've been surprised at all the excitement over Linux 2.4. I've noticed that all of you kernel wizards are scrambling to get Linux 2.4 installed on LRP, while glibc 2.1 gets ignored. For me,

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-17 Thread George Metz
On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: Why I never went anywhere with mine was mostly because I sent out several e-mails to this list, and the lack of a response was almost deafening in it's silence. If I recall, not even you commented David. I assumed that people had weighed the

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-17 Thread David Douthitt
Ewald Wasscher wrote: David Douthitt wrote: Pim van Riezen wrote: if I want to produce binaries I'll have to use three different environments if I want to cater for all glibc variations. Now that RH7/glibc2.2 is gaining acceptance that'll be four: libc5 Is anyone still using

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-17 Thread Ewald Wasscher
David Douthitt wrote: I'd vote for 2.2. It may be bigger, but 2.1 will be unmaintained rather soon I'm afraid. So when we choose for glibc 2.1 we might end up with the same mess as we have for glibc 2.0 now in a year or so. Unless one of us is capable of backporting security fixes 2.2 is the