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Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
> If you compile your own binaries against glibc 2.1, you also need to
> recompile some other libraries. The problem is that libio had to be changed
> and therefore libraries that are based or depend on the libio of glibc,
> e.g. libstdc++, ncurses or slang, need to be recompiled. If you experience
> strange segmentation faults in your programs linked against glibc 2.1, you
> might need to recompile your libraries.
libstdc++ shouldn't have problems. You have to adapt it to the
compiler only.
> glibc 2.1 system. You should just add -lcompat and you should be fine.
The library definitely should have the glibc version number in the
name. E.g.,
libcompat-2.0.a
or so.
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