On 26 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
> Can someone please explain to me what libc is all about? Some binary packages
> provide different versions of the RPM depending on whether you want libc5 or
> libc6. Which is provided with RH5? Which do I or should I prefer? Why?
libc-4 was the old a.out libc
libc-5 was the original ELF libc
libc-6 is the new GNU libc, also called glibc-2
Each of these is I think binary-incompatible with the previous version.
Starting with Red Hat 5.0, glibc (libc-6) is the version with which most
everything is built, and it takes some effort to use libc5, even though
you have it there. Get libc6 stuff from now on.
Read more about it in the /usr/doc/glibc-2.0.7 area right there on your
computer!
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