[gobolinux-devel] Upgrading Glibc

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/3/6, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org>:
> On 3/5/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > > Were you running an updated version of Scripts? The current version
> > > should handle Glibc installation fine.
> > michael@ ~]ls -l /Programs/Scripts/Current
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 gobo gobo 5 Mar  1 22:35 /Programs/Scripts/Current -> 2.6.2
> > I can't find a newer version in the repository, at least. Also:
> > michael@ ~]uname -r
> > 2.6.17.11-Gobo
> > michael@ ~]ls -l /Programs/Glibc/Current
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 gobo gobo 3 Mar  5 22:23 /Programs/Glibc/Current -> 2.4
> >
> > Everything other than Scripts, BootScripts, Firefox, and Freshen is
> > the out-of-the-box version from 013. The InstallPackage command was
> > `InstallPackage -b -D -u keep Glibc 2.5`; would a different version be
> > better?
>
> It shouldn't make difference. Detsch tested the upgrade on a 2.3
> system moving to a 2.4. I have never tried myself to upgrade Glibc.
> Can anyone take a look into this? Maybe by running gobo inside qemu or
> other emulator.. I don't have the time to test that right now,
> unfortunately.
>
I've upgraded Glibc somewhat succesfully. It did symlink fine and the
system did not crash. However some applications, like Xorg, have
problems since the upgrade, but I cannot seem to ppin down if that's
because some lib it's using is compiled against the old version of
Glibc or if the error's somewhere else. Not without recompiling the
complete dependency chain of Xorg and Window Maker.

-- 
/Jonas