Ralf Baechle wrote:
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> I have a 80% port of Redhat 7.0 which is based on a fairly recent glibc.
> It's running mostly solid for me and that also inludes things such as
> threading and binary compatibility with glibc 2.0. I'm uploading the
> glibc 2.1.95 now to oss.sgi.com:/pub/linux/mips/glibc/; the rest of the
> distribution will follow in about two days. Not earlier for bandwidth
> reasons, I'm on a 28k8 bps diet ;-)
That's great! Few questions: By 80% do you mean that there are some obscure
packages are not available? Does glibc 2.1.95 also contain glibc-devel?
Can one upgrade only glibc (and glibc-devel) on one of our origins
which has Hard Hat 5.1?
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> Note, you will also need rpm4 to install these rpms. rpm3 will not install
> rpm4 packages, therefore you need to untar the rpm4 binary tarballs first,
> then use it to install the rpm4 package properly, then glibc.
>
> Note it's still only a 32-bit library. The kernel is designed to be able
> to run a 64-bit userland but we currently don't have the necessary support
> for that in gas and glibc, just to mention the most important packages
> that cannot yet support a 64-bit userland..
I'm compiling the xfs cmds (user utilities) in 32-bit mode so that's ok.
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