Re: libc5 vs glibc

2000-01-29 Thread John Summerfield
> > Likely (to me) problems are > > 1 GLIBC has some incompatibilities with LIBC; perhaps the software depend > s > > on old behaviour even though it compiles well enough. > > If its threaded it may not be able to cope with pre-emption. If its got buggy > memory allocation it will trip up diff

Re: libc5 vs glibc

2000-01-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Likely (to me) problems are > 1 GLIBC has some incompatibilities with LIBC; perhaps the software depends > on old behaviour even though it compiles well enough. If its threaded it may not be able to cope with pre-emption. If its got buggy memory allocation it will trip up differently > 2

libc5 vs glibc

2000-01-29 Thread John Summerfield
I have discovered an email client that I want to try out; it comes in source and I've built it and tried running it on RHL. I find it rather unstable - it crashes too frequently for me to even try to respond to mail with it. It was once a commercial product & has been GPLed and cast adrift. T