Re: Borland GLibC Upgrade

[Adam Goucher <adam ninjatactics com>]

IIRC, all Borland did was get the src.rpm, ad their patch (which they
explain what it is) and rebuilt it. Ive had the patched one installed for
awhile now and have had no problems (that could be attributed to it).

-adam

> Hey guys.
>
> I would like to port over some Windoze apps to Kylix. I've downloaded Kylix,
> and , as expected, the pre-install tells me it requires me to upgrade to the
> glibc on the Borland website.
>
> Is this 100% safe? I'm downloading it now, but I vaguely remember that some
> libraries aren't 100% backward compatable with older programs. I'm running
> RedHat 6.2 with all updates. The only program I'm really worried about is
> diald, as this is just about the only 3rd party daemon I run.
>
> Is there a chance things will break?
>
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