[ale] libc5 vs libc6

[Chris Ricker]

On  3 May, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> Ok,
>   I've been fighting compiling the xawtv package.  It turns out alot
> of the problem was that I had a /lib/libc.so.5 and libc.so.6.  When I 
> moved it out of the way it compiled nicely.  
> 
>   I can see that libc.so.6 was installed by glibcs-rpm, but nothing
> claimes to own libc.so.5.
> 
>   My question, how likely am I committing suicide by removing that?

If you're running a properly configured glibc-based* system, there
shouldn't be a libc.so.5 in /lib at all.  That would definitely explain
why you're having compilation problems, and you should be safe deleting
it.  Just make sure you have a boot method handy and aren't going to
sue me if I'm wrong ;-).

*I imagine you installed libc5 by hand on a redhat box once upon a
time, then later upgraded to 5.0.  Since RPM didn't know about the
/lib/libc.so.5, it didn't delete it like it normally would have....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker						kaboom at gatech.edu