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

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I bit the bullet and have the SW9.1 glibc 2.3.1
>
> The glibc package from Slackware 9.1 is 2.3.2.
> I am not recommending that package.
>
> > > It is OK to cherry-pick the xbin from Slackware 4.0.
> > > However, I do not recommend this for an xbin in a
> > > more recent Slackware.
> >
> > I did it for BL2.1 (Slackware 7.1) and it worked with Xvesa.
>
> BL2 has a glibc2 foundation -- upgrading to a newer glibc2
> is not a big step.  However, BL3 has a libc5 foundation --
> upgrading to glibc2 has several fishhooks (which are avoided
> by installing the full runtime package).

It worked for me to install just a few files (ld-linux, libc and libm, I 
think) in order to use Opera 7.  Plus some X libraries.

> > > libc-2.3.1.so   1262496
> >
> > You are right, libc-2.2.5.so is 1237848, about 25K smaller.
> > I installed SW9.1 libc-2.3.2.so which is 1458907
>
> Clearly there are significant differences between 2.3.2
> and 2.3.1.  I am confident that 2.3.1 works.  I have no
> such confidence in 2.3.2.  Besides, it's 200kb bigger.

But what about the SW10.2 glibc?
The main difference in size appears to be ld-linux, not libc itself.

> I am also confident that glibc 2.3.1 is significantly
> better than 2.2.5.
>
> > All the libc .so files from SW91 with 2.3.2 in their names
> > total using wc total about 2.8MB.  The ones with 2.2.5 total
> > 1.87MB.  So it does come to an extra MB
>
> Yes, glibc 2.2.5 is smaller than 2.3.2.  But I am not
> recommending 2.3.2.
>
> > The new ld-2.3.2.so is about 700K and the old one 83K,
>
> ld-2.3.1.so is 85252 (about the same size as the old one).
What did they do in 2.3.2 to make it so large?

> > Is it possible to compile a smaller ld file
>
> No need.  Simply use glibc 2.3.1 and you will have a
> small ld file.

It is not all that simple to downgrade a library.  I think I would need to 
boot with some other linux, delete everything 2.3.2, run ldlinux - is that 
right?  And first download the 2.3.2 so libs for 30 minutes.

I can't really lose by doing another upgrade to the SW10.2 glibc first and 
trying abiword with that.  (First we may upgrade the power supply so it 
will boot more than once a day).

> Cheers,
> Steven