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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