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Originally Posted by memed
oh, any advice on how to update the glibc, i heard is was impossible without re-installing an updatet version of the whole disto ?
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Sorry, I missed this posting completely!
As I told quite often
I'm using a Debian system. Installing the glibc 2.3 was easy once I figured out it's package name. The Debian software installation utility
apt-get resolves all depencencies automatically and installed updated version of the installed software if it's neccessary. You simply don't have to worry about it!
And there havn't been many updates installed besides the new glibc 2.3 library as I remember.
In theory it should also be possible to have two different versions installed at the same time. But here it comes to theory vs practice - I havn't done with the glibc at linux only with other libraries and un*xes 9_9:
You can set an environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH which contains the search path for dynamic link libraries, e.g. "/usr/local/glibc23-lib/". The dynamic linker searches at this path for libraries before the other system library paths. But you should read
http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html carefully before you do this!