Re: glibc 2.1

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:

> Is anybody using a glibc 2.1 prerelease on an Alpha system?  I installed 
> 2.0.104 just now and had problems with PAM -- su, login and so on all seem to 
> segfault.  I'm using Red Hat 5.1.

I tried 2.1.102 on Linux/AXP (also based on RH-5.1) and it sucked (sorry)
for me, too.  Some programs segfaulted (strace in particular) and the
UNIX98 pty's only worked for ssh(!), which was compiled quite awhile ago
against glibc-2.0.7.  Installing the packages (which were from
rawhide.redhat.com) also broke my resolver, even after I reverted to 2.0.7.
Then I tried patching up to 103, but the patches didn't apply cleanly.
Finally, I tried compiling 103 from scratch with a freshly downloaded tar
file and it bombed about 45mins into the compile.  I threw in the towel.
If you do get a prerelease working on AXP, please post here though and let
us know; I'd like to try again.

thanks,
-bp
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