[plug] re opening linuxconf

[Beau Kuiper]

On Sun, 6 May 2001, skribe wrote:

> On Sun,  6 May 2001 14:08, Beau Kuiper wrote:
>
> > What libraries were you upgrading?
>
> >From memory, this is a few years ago, it was the upgrade from lib5 to lib6.

No wonder

libc5 to libc6 is really a new distribution job. all the other libraries
depend on libc5 still, so when you attempt to build a new program that
uses libraries other than libc, it will try to link to both libc5 and
libc6, and it won't work.

I imagine a packaging system which attempts to upgrade libc5 to libc6 will
fall into the same hole, or have to upgrade every package on the system to
link and use libc6, essentually a new distribution.

upgrading libc on a unix system (unless it is a binary compatible fix for
security issues) is something you shouldn't try to do.

Have fun
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au