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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

Ron Clarke wrote:
>    On another matter (BL3.4), I tried to install a flash-player to the shiny
> new Opera in BL3.4, but it comlained that my glibc is too old.

Does it tell you what minimum version it requires? If so, what version
does it want?

>    The SW9.0 glibc is 14 MB !

You mean the glibc-2*.tgz, right? I think that is for compiling only.

>     Is there ANY possibility that installing the SW9.0 glibc libraries (not
> the glibc-solibs which are running well) could farkle BL3.4 ?

http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/farkled

'farkled' == 'hosed' or 'destroyed beyond easy repair'

It is very hard for a library upgrade to destroy BL3, since all of the
foundation is statically compiled, unlike BL2.

David