glibc-2.8 tarballs?
Allin Cottrell
cottrell@wfu.edu
Mon May 19 13:53:00 GMT 2008
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:17:00 -0400 (EDT)
> Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
> > ...I'm happy to wait for a 2.8 release if it's not ready yet,
> > but I wouldn't like to think there will be no more public
> > glibc releases (and it's all Fedora-private).
>
> There's really nothing private about Fedora. You can checkout
> the Fedora glibc directory and run "make sources" and it will
> download whatever sources (including tarballs) that were used to
> build the Fedora package...
Thanks for the tip. Somehow I feel more comfortable building
glibc from an "official" versioned tar.gz, though maybe that is
just superstition on my part.
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
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