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To: Achim Oppelt <aoppelt@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Subject: Re: glibc-2.0
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From: Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
Date: 11 Mar 1997 12:44:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: Achim Oppelt's message of 11 Mar 1997 18:14:03 +0100
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>>>>> "Achim" == Achim Oppelt <aoppelt@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

    Achim> Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com> writes:
    >> I just installed glibc-2.0.1 on 586/linux.  What libs need to be
    >> rebuilt for xemacs?  It looks like X386-3.2 doesn't depend on libc.
    Achim> [...]

     Achim> I find it hard to believe that you can use your old XFree86 libraries with
    Achim> the new libc, and according to the problems page referenced in the above
    Achim> page, there is currently no version of XFree86 available which is built
    Achim> against glibc 2.

I took a quick look at the X11R6 libs with ldd, and it looks like X11
is statically linked.  I guess there could be changes to data
structures that could make the binaries incompatible?  Otherwise it
looked like no dependence on a shared libc.

