Hi ! I have a cluster of machines running Linux Mandrake 7.1 with the necesary upgrades to run KDE 2 (installed in /opt/kde2 and coexist with the very old kde1). I make some upgrades without touching glibc (almost). This are the glibc packages I have installed:
glibc-profile-2.1.3-18.3mdk glibc-devel-2.1.3-18.3mdk glibc-2.1.3-18.3mdk compat-glibc-5.3-2.0.7.9mdk I need to upgrade glibc from version 2.1.3 to version 2.2.x so I can run the new intel fortran(and c++) compiler( and may be to run kde 3 and other stuff :) ). I try to make the upgrade some time ago.... but I had to unmade the changes because the system experience problems like random errors.. I googled and find out that is common to have problems when you upgrade glibc. The other problem is that you need to reboot the machine to make the upgrade (but I think this can' t be solved). A couple of months ago it wasn't a problem ( I could find software for mandrake compiled for the old glibc or I could recompile it in my system) but right now that's not posible anymore. More and more software need the new glibc. It's posible to keep the version of glibc and install the new one (may be in other directory) and have both of them... may be with some magic :) ?. Any comment is appreciate. TIA ALF PD: it's not posible for me to upgrade the cluster right now (it's very big) .... so that's not an option. I prefer to make a small fix if I could.....
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