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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I recommend everyone upgrade their ext2 BL2 libc to that from SW8.1, it is
> > not much larger and lets you use many more precompiled programs.
>
> I upgraded my ext2 BL2 libc to that from SW9.1. The glibcsolibs package
> from SW9.1 is only 1MB, and it works with linux 2.2.16. Nothing appears
> to have broken; I just used installpkg and was able to continue to use
> busybox, links, and ppp, even after rebooting. There is a very large
> number of binary packages that will work with this libc.

I once updated glibcso to 8.1 but kept glibc from 7.1 and it made a total 
mess when I tried to compile.  I tried to restore the older glibcso and it 
would not restore.  Ar and some other things stopped working at all, I 
could not compile, and I had to start all over from scratch.

So I would also upgrade the full glibc to SW91 - is that much bigger than 
SW81's?

> > Can I delete libcurl.a?
>
> Yes. You will then be unable to compile static binaries with libcurl,
> but very few people actually want to be able to do that.

I can't even figure out how to use curl.


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