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From: John on 22 Feb 2010 16:33
Trying to upgrade my glibc to a higher version than 2.3 and having
problem. Running Redhat Enterprise 4. I I tried to compiled but that
didn't work.

Thanks.

-J
From: Eef Hartman on 23 Feb 2010 04:34
John <lilgrasshopper(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to upgrade my glibc to a higher version than 2.3 and having
> problem. Running Redhat Enterprise 4. I I tried to compiled but that
> didn't work.

I wouldn't do that without upgrading most of the rest of the system
(i.e. to RHEL 5). The C-compiler itself is tightly coupled to the
version of the C library and glibc 2.4 needs a gcc 4.0.x version as
the compiler. And then you will have to replace or recompile a lot
of the other (dependant ON glibc) libraries, like libm, libutil, as
it's a major version jump in the C compiler they are to work with,
but also quite a few applications will have to be recompiled to work
AGAINST this newer glibc (etc) libraries.

To be exact, in glibc-2.3.x, the 3.x is the version of gcc itself,
but from 2.4 onwards, any minor version change of the compiler is
also a "2nd number" jump in the library:
glibc-2.4 is for gcc 4.0, glibc-2.5 (and not 2.4.1) for gcc 4.1
(this is the version in RHEL 5), etc.
My openSUSE 11.1 even already uses glibc-2.9, with a 4.3.2 version
of the gcc compiler(suite)
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