On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 15:56, Alan Cox wrote:
> > release version, and using that. CVS versions of software often contain
> > new bugs and even security vulnerabilities, it is far more prudent to
> > work with a release version of such a major system component. Because of
> > this, most distros will probably wait until it becomes a release until
> > they include it.
>
> Ask the glibc 2.3 maintainer. I can tell you for free that 2.3 contains
> fixes for security holes in 2.2-*. I can't tell you the holes because
> CERT won't let anyone yet. So thats not true.
so, you can't backport them, because then people might figure out what
the problems actually are, so instead, they just leave the door wide
open? kindof a nightmare for a glibc packager (and user), use cvs (or
prereleases) or else...I wonder if this sort of thing is done with the
kernel too (2.4 vs 2.5).
> > As far as actually getting this done, redhat has provided cross compiler
> > rpms in the past, so you may be able to get these, and cross compile for
> > glibc2.2. I don't see a rough time for binary snapshots, just a rough
> > time for developers using cvs snapshots of glibc
>
> Yawn and its not a CVS snapshot.
>
> If instead of whining someone figured out why the weirdass XFree86
> binary module load has problems with this we might get somewhere
> instead.
>
russ:~/src/dripkg$ ldd r200/r200_dri.so
r200/r200_dri.so: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found
(required by r200/r200_dri.so)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401a6000)
...
from xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/r200/Imakefile
LIBNAME = r200_dri.so
SharedDriModuleTarget($(LIBNAME),DONE $(OBJS),$(OBJS))
InstallDynamicModule($(LIBNAME),$(MODULEDIR),dri)
and SharedDriModuleTarget contains:
$(CC) -o $@~ -Wl,--version-script=$@.map $(SHLIBLDFLAGS) solist
$(REQUIREDLIBS) BaseShLibReqs @@\
and:
#if LinuxCLibMajorVersion <= 5
...
#define BaseShLibReqs
#else
/* With GNU libc 2 this works fine. */
#define BaseShLibReqs -lc
#endif
now the question is, why is it linked that way (I don't know the X
source very well)
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