Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc

[Tony Clark <tclark@telia.com>]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 07.24, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:40AM +0200, Tony Clark wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 04.35, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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> > > i wouldnt suggest trying to downgrade ... i'm pretty sure it'll leave
> > > your box usuable (well it'll leave glibc unusable and thats usually
> > > your whole box :D)
> > >
> > > you can (if you dont mind shelling out $5) buy the binary versions from
> > > transgaming ... those work with the newest glibc ...
> > > - -mike
> >
> > Don't buy codeweavers wine stuff as it doesn't work with the latest
> > version of glibc.  I'll be downgrading glibc soon. Built glibc with nptl
> > support as someone here said it would work that way but it doesn't here. 
> > There is also a bug in the glibc ebuild when you enable nptl, which I
> > must report.
> >
> > tony
>
> Downgrading glibc is a bad idea... anything built against the newer
> glibc version will break...
Yeah, been there done that :)  In this case there are only a couple of things 
built against the latest glibc and they can fail at this stage.

tony
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