Re: Don't document upgrading from libc5 (bug 5993)

[David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>]

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:47:17 +0000 (UTC)

> Bug 5993 reports a broken link relating to upgrading from libc5.
> Information about upgrading from libc5 is long obsolete; support for
> libc5 was obsoleted in GCC long ago (though it took a while to get rid
> of various non-obvious relics).  I think this information which was
> relevant 15 years ago is now just confusing and should be removed;
> this patch removes it.  Since "make install" may not always remove old
> headers (I don't think we did anything to make it remove RPC headers,
> for example) I added a mention of that, but I think for any recent
> upgrades non-removal of old headers is fairly harmless.  (Even the
> information about swapping out header directories is of doubtful
> relevance now.  glibc really is targetted at various forms of
> distributors and package managers that will track automatically what
> was installed by the old version and deal themselves with removing old
> files.)
> 
> Comments?

No objections from me, this probably should have been killed years
ago.