Re: insmod.c patch for 2.1.x

Rob Glover (potato@dial-sc1-10.iway.aimnet.com)
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT)


Well, libc5.4.9 is a bigger download, is pretty easy to install, just
untar in /, and is likely to fix more stuff than just insmod :>

-Rob

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Ray Auchterlounie wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961019143846.252A-100000@dial-sc1-11.iway.aimnet.com> you wrote:
> >Don't use the insmod.c patch..... get libc5.4.9. that fixes everything :>
> [...]
>
> Including fixing all the programs that broke with previous libc upgrades ?
>
> The insmod patch is likely to be:
>
> * much smaller to download
> * much easier to install
> * much less likely to break other stuff
>
> Also, insmod should be patched anyway (in addition to fixing libc), if
> only to give a more informative error message (like "incompat. libc"),
> as there are likely to be a lot of older libcs around.
>
> ray
>
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> Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
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> seven and a half million years' work?"
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