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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

The only problems I had were due to my NOT upgrading glibc when I upgraded
glibcso, which made it impossible to compile shared programs.  Then I was
unable to downgrade glibcso and compile, or even use ar again.  Something
was still expecting glibc 2.2 and I never figured this out.  So I will be
upgrading both libraries from now on.  

I needed 2.3 to use Opera 7.23 (6.03 works but unloads itself frequently).  
Also to use a standard precompiled Kermit.

The only reason I wanted to keep the older glibc was to compile for other 
BL2 users who had not upgrade glibcso.  I am giving up on this as it is 
easy and not very space consuming to upgrade glibcso.  It does not seem 
necessary to upgrade the other four files used in compiling (linuxinc is 
kernel specific, egcs and make and binutils from SW71 seem to work with 
the later glibc from SW71).

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Matrix Mole wrote:

> Ok, I've discovered that some of the programs I'm wanting to use on my
> system require the glibc-2.3 libraries. My question is, what programs can
> anyone think of that I will be required to keep the lower glibc libraries
> for? I would've thought that the libraries were backwards compatible, but
> Sindi had all sorts of problems with the older libraries IIRC. Or was it
> just that the older libraries were desired for nothing more than compiling
> programs for current BL users?
> 
> Matrix Mole