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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Glibc 2.3.3 release
  • Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:58:22 +0100

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:56:44AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> There's a new "stable" glibc release: 2.3.3
> (from:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/glibc/?branch_id=3522&release_id=179432)
> This release provided better support for the dynamic linker and faster
> regular expressions in multi-byte locales, and supports non-executable
> stacks on x86.
>
> Their news file[0] doesn't list 2.3.3 yet.
>
> Tarball available at (both glibc and glibc-linuxthreads):
> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/releases/
>
> Testers are welcome to let us know how it goes. :)

Unless they changed the tarball since I tested that "release", it's
totally broken. Looking at the dates of the files there it doesn't seem
to be new. When I tried it it didn't even compile.

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