[ale] upgrading glibcx to glibc2.2.4...........

[James P. Kinney III]

Upgrading glibc is HARD! Everything depends on it. To replace a running
glibc is similar to a heart transplant in a living being.

It is an easier task to install a new glibc to support an application
that needs the new library calls. In that situation, it would be a
better thing (in an rpm environment, especially) to NOT use the package
management and instead do the compile and install into /usr/local, then
update /etc/ld.so.conf to include the /usr/local/lib directory if it is
not already there.

Unless you are hurting for space, and thus might need to install other
versions of glibc to support other stuff, only install the version
required, unless there are know "issues" with that version. I that case
get the next higher version that is free of the problem.

This is a process that really can't be done without a test machine
running the same stuff as the production box.

And lots of antacid.

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 12:20, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> First, should I upgrade to the highest available or only to 2.2.4 which 
> is the minimum a desired application requires, or to 2.3.2 i.e. the latest ?
> 
> How should this new glibc be installed, taking into consideration that 
> the old glibcx is currently running ?
> 
> Thank you.
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