Jans, > I've been told that *glibc* is a very basic package in Gentoo system > thus you have to re-compile all packages after you have glibc > re-compiled. > > I followed this guideline before and it's really time-consuming to > emerge -e world again and again, what make it worse is that the glibc > ebuild updates frequently recently ... > > So who can tell me is it TRUE?
With the little knowledge I have of glibc, to my understanding it provides an interface for programs written in C. According to the FSF, glibc is *the* C library ( http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html ). Saying that, I think it's very well written and doesn't radically differ with each release, therefore there should be no need to recompile your entire system to take advantage of a new glibc. HTH, -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gentoooo-hooo!! == -- [email protected] mailing list
