Comments on chapter 2 of FAQ - "Installation and configuration issues"

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 04/27/2012 11:05 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> Here's the table of contents with my comments on what to do with these
>> items. I suggest to remove everything for ancient versions
>> (libc5->glibc2 move, glibc 2.0/2.1/2.2):
>
> I generally agree with these proposals.

I've put chapter 2 now in the wiki.

>> 2.15.	After installing glibc name resolving doesn't work properly.
>>
>> Not sure.
>
> Remove, I think.  nsswitch.conf is still relevant, but this isn't a FAQ
> now; it's effectively a libc5-upgrade question (people will now have a
> good nsswitch.conf).
>
>> 2.37.	When recompiling GCC, I get compilation errors in libstdc++.
>>
>> Remove.
>
> However, it may be useful to have a similar new question regarding the
> siginfo_t changes and libgcc build failures - existing GCC releases
> (predating Thomas's patches) won't build with current glibc because of
> that.

I added this to the New entries section.

Andreas
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