On Fri, 13 Mar 98 10:43:00 -0500, "Scott Drake" wrote:
>I don't really think this is plain wrong, although libc5 might be dead in your
> eyes
>you just can't drop support for it and expect the whole world to follow. It ma
>kes
>no sense to just drop support for something just because you think it's dead,
>RH
>should have least made it clear the libc5 programs will not compile under 5.0
>which it did not and really should have phased out the support over several
>releases not from one to the other.
It is not "in my eyes" that it is dead. The maintainers have abandoned it.
That makes it dead in anyone's eyes. Also, anyone who does coding should know
that you can't (easily) have to different C libraries to link against. Now,
if you really need to build libc5 apps and you have a bit of disk space to
spare, you can do what we do here at Red Hat. We have one build machine that
we build both 4.2 and 5.0 packages on. We use a change root to build in.
That way our build environments never interfere with the run environment on
the system.
Basically, a change root is a complete 4.2 installation in a sub dir on a
running system. You issue a chroot command to switch into that change root
and build away. It is not too difficult to set up, but there can be some
tricky things to be aware of, namely setting up the dir structure and
installing everything.
>I can't understand why anyone would just up and drop support for something
>like this, you break almost everything out there and then tell people it's you
>r
>problem not ours so go spend more money on another machine just to compile
>older programs that won't compile under glibc. For this you don't expect users
> to
>get upset.
Any code that doesn't compile under glibc is broken code. Many packages used
very poor programming techniques and were able to build under libc5. glibc
will not allow that. Granted, there are some bugs in glibc, but 2.0.9 seems
to be very solid. We also did not just "up and drop support for libc5". It
was about a year ago that we started working on this. That was the major
feature (and yes, it is a feature, not a bug) of 5.0.
Mike
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