Re: glibc-2.1 upgrade headaches. Any ideas??

Conde Martinez Rodolfo (rconde@ada.fciencias.unam.mx)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:32:46 -0600 (CST)


On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, CaT wrote:

# Conde Martinez Rodolfo wrote the following:
# >
# > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Tom Eastep wrote:
# >
# > # Alex wrote:
# > # >
# > # > I am having quite a problem with glibc-2.1. I am wondering if anyone has
# > # > encountered the following. I am running RedHat 5.2 with 2.2.1-ac6 kernel and I
# > # > upgraded my glibc-2.1. Upgrade went smooth without any errors.But now, when I want
# > # > to run menuconfig on linux-2.2.2 with ac-7, it is giving me a message:
# > # >
# > # > "There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is
# > # > built prior Menuconfig.
# > #
# > # You need to rebuild ncureses -- see the glibc 2.1 FAQ.
# > #
# > Sorry the intromision....but i downloaded glibc-2.1-0.99022 my
# > question here is if it's this version of glibc-2.1 that you are running or
# > you got to download the last version before gnu put it away from
# > pub/glibc ??? if so any of you know if the version i got is safe and have
# > no problems with 2.2.x kernels.....???
#
# I managed to get what I believe is the real one. I've never seen one like the
# one you descrive. is that from a tarball?

I got it from at.rpmfind.net it's an binary rpm package....The one
you say you got to compile it or is there a rpm package available ???

#
# > AAHH !! one last think....is it okay to built the kernel wiht
# > egcs-1.1.1 ???
#
# I've been happily doing it for a while with -O2 optimisation and
# -march=pentiumpro and haven't had a single kernel crash.

if it's going well then how do you change the flag -m486 for
-mpentium (or as you said -march=pentium instead of Ppro) ?? do you have
to do it manually ???

Thanks for the answers.....

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