Dan Nicholson wrote:
Updating glibc, i.e. rebuilding everything, is a tough option if it's only being done to get your ssh server working.
I didn't say "rebuild anything". If you only apply a tiny patch on top of glibc-2.3.4, it stays binary compatible with all applications.
Also the myth about the need to rebuild everything after glibc upgrade has wrong accents. The correct version:
Glibc developers try to make sure that all glibc releases are binary compatible, i.e. every application that runs on a particular version of glibc and doesn't use glibc private symbols will also run on all later versions without recompilation. Any incompatibility is a bug. Unfortunately, such bugs do happen, and some applications do use glibc private symbols such as __libc_stack_end for which there are no guarantees.
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