On Tue, 12 May 1998, Andy Stubbs wrote:
> As it happens, it isn't actually there; it's in the updates directory for
> RH 5.0. BUT... I can't work out why jdk1.1.5 is linked against a version
> of glibc2 which doesn't appear to exist in anything other than .rpm format
> and isn't even at the gnu ftp site. This is something of a mystery to me.
> I guess if I want this thing to work I'm going to either have to find a
> rpm depackager thingy and try to botch the result into the system
> somewhere without breaking anything, or give up and get libc5.4.44...
> which defeats the whole point somewhat.
>
> is a .tgz available _anywhere_ (archie thinks not)?
Of this particular package? No. JDK uses this version of glibc because it
was what I had on my machine when I compiled it. IMO, this is a much
better alternative than being built against the versions of 2.0.7 that I
compiled myself. I upgraded to RH's glibc because it contains some
bugfixes over the stock 2.0.7 pre-releases and I can say grab the standard
RH glibc rather than grab my custom glibc build that hasn't been tested
anywhere but on my box.
Last I checked, 2.0.7 is still a pre-release as far as GNU is concerned.
This is why you won't find it at ftp.gnu.org. RH obviously had their
reasons for choosing to use it now. Security fixes was one of those. If
you want to build it yourself, grab the .src.rpm from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/updates/SRPMS/. Yes, it's still
in rpm format, but it contains the pre 2.0.7 tars and the RH patches. The
alien program should help you convert it from rpm to whatever format you
like.
- cls
