Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Mittwoch 18 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:09:35 walt wrote:
> > On 11/17/2009 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me??
> > > :-)
> >
> > In another thread you just claimed that you plan to paint *one* bedroom.
> > Speaking as a married man, I predict that you will be revisiting that one
> > soon enough :o(
> 
> Bedroom's gonna have to wait. Yesterday morning I wheelied the bike as per
>  my usual fashion over the bump at the office park front gate.
> 
> And snapped the drive belt when the back wheel came back down on the tar.
> 
> Bloody American bikes. I can buy 3 Hondukiyamasaki superbike chains for the
> price of one American drive belt.
> 
> Back on topic now :-) Apparently upstream is aware of this silly
> behaviour/bug, maybe I should wait a bit and see if they provide a knob to
>  go back to the old behaviour
> 

the knob is the variable MALLOC_CHECK_ set it to "" (MALLOC_CHECK="")  and you 
will be fine.