Re: 2.0.x and glibc-2.0 collisions...

Dan Merillat (dan@merillat.org)
Thu, 29 May 1997 21:59:57 -0400


Michael Poole writes:
> On Thu, 29 May 1997, Dan Merillat wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is, either; it seems that a lot more
> programs which were designed to be portable use the 'proper' (at least
> under glibc2) include files than programs which were written specifically
> for Linux.

Linux specific programs, sound drivers, lots of stuff that is linux
"aware" Dosemu, network sniffers/analyzers... Lots of stuff breaks
under glibc.

Oh well, I hear redhat is putting out a new distribution that has all
the glibc patches, so that will be nice. (espically since glibc-2.0
is threaded! yay!)

--Dan