There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about the libc, glibc and glibc2
libraries on SuSE linux 5.3 and the 6.0 beta - particularly with regard to Star
Office.
Well I can live without Star Office I think, but I urgently need to install the
Oracle 8.0 software and I'd also like to try building the mozilla browser to see
if it's any more stable than Navigator 4.06 and 4.5.
The problem is these require a glibc2-based system and I'm running SuSE 5.3.
What I've read makes me think that if I install the glibc2 libraries then lots
of things will stop working unless I recompile virtually the whole system. Is
this true? is there any way around it? I'm unwilling to risk the stability of my
whole system to achieve these goals but I'm reluctant to go back to using
RedHat.
The glibc HOWTO shows how to install glibc2 from a source code tarball. I'd
rather have rpms for both the development support packages and the lib binaries
as there would surely be less to go wrong then. The mozilla instructions say you
need to install the RedHat glibc2 rpms but I'm far from sure this will work on
my SuSE 5.3 system - at least without breaking loads of other stuff.What I want
is SuSE rpms really I suppose. Can I use SuSE 6.0 beta glibc2 rpms? Would I run
the same risk with these anyway?
Judging by the volume of related correspondence on this list, what we
desperately need is a SuSE linux v5.3 glibc2 conversion HOWTO. I doubt this will
be forthcoming from SuSE as they will want people to buy SuSE 6.0. Is there
anyone out there who has installed oracle or built mozilla on SuSE 5.3? If so
please share your knowledge. I've posted technical support to this list myself
quite a few times now so I don't feel too ashamed to ask....
It would be a start if someone could just define what libc glibc and glibc2 are,
in terms of the files they each comprise. for instance, didn't glibc originally
go by the name of libc6?
What are the effects on kernel compilation if I install glibc2?
And is there somewhere I can read a technical summary about all these libraries
and the differences between them?
Help!
Ralph
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