Re: Update for "keeping the most important linux packages update..."

Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:32:08 -0600 (CST)

>> Sometime, Alessandro Sigala wrote (I'm adding this to make it clearer - bryn):
>> > - Linux C Library 5.3.9
>>
>> I don't know if it's already been included, but if they're going to
>> upgrade gcc, libc, and ld.so, they'll probably have to recompile make. There
>> is a version of make (source, of course! :) ) that has the dirent bugfix
>> already patched.. you should find it at your favourite SunSITE mirror, in
>> linux/devel/make/make-3.74.patched.tgz. There's prolly a precompiled ELF there
>> as well.
>>
>> BL.
>> - --
>> tyketto@unomaha.edu
>> bradl@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au
>>
>Is this the same dirent bug that broke make at libc-5.2.16(ish)+, or a
>totaly new one ?
>
>Do people with new distributions (RedHat 3.0.3, I'm not sure if slackware
>has a new release), and people aready on libc-5.2.18 (as I am), who fixed
>make once, need to fix again (ie it's a new problem), or have we done it
>already (ie it's the same problem) ?

I'm pretty sure it's the same problem. BTW, you should probably be
advocating libc 5.2.18 instead of version 5.3.9, as the latter is not
officially considered stable.

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