FAQ entry for glibc 2.2
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Mon Oct 23 23:59:00 GMT 2000
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> - The utmp daemon has been removed.
> - Programs using IPv6 have to be recompiled due to incompatible
> changes in sockaddr_in6.
> - The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
> Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
> obviously requires a database library being available.
> - The format for the locale files has changed, all locales should be
> regenerated with localedef.
And all statically linked applications which use i18n should be
recompiled. Otherwise they'll not be localized.
> - ldconfig is part of glibc 2.2
- No more K&R compatibility in the headers (maybe the right place to
mention this)
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