recommended.
The glibc-2.4 docs say that this version of glibc uses a new binary
format for executables, and you better believe that. What does
this mean? It means that you can not use glibc-2.4 to replace
your existing glibc-2.3.6, because NONE of your existing programs
will work, because they are not the correct new binary format
expected by glibc-2.4. If you insist on installing glibc-2.4 in /lib
and /usr/lib, then the install program will crash, and your system
will be unusable. This is when you need an emergency boot disk,
and use it to put back in the old glibc-2.3.6 that was clobbered by
the glibc-2.4 install attempt.
So when you build glibc-2.4 on a system running glibc-2.3.6, you
must install 2.4 in some safe directory, say /usr/glibc-2.4. Then
you must rebuild ALL the executables (coreutils, e2fsprogs,
sysvinit, etc., everything) using /usr/glibc-2.4, and put the new builds
inside /usr/glibc-2.4. Finally, you must install a new system using
only glibc-2.4, and all the newly build binaries of everything.
So who wants to do all these hard work. Maybe the organizers of
the new Pinoy distribution? Since you are building a new distro,
you might as well use the latest glibc!
Enjoy!
PMana
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