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From: Tony Clark <tclark@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:49:03
Message-Id: 200307221749.05964.tclark@telia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc by Jon Portnoy
1 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 07.24, Jon Portnoy wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:40AM +0200, Tony Clark wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 04.35, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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7 > > > i wouldnt suggest trying to downgrade ... i'm pretty sure it'll leave
8 > > > your box usuable (well it'll leave glibc unusable and thats usually
9 > > > your whole box :D)
10 > > >
11 > > > you can (if you dont mind shelling out $5) buy the binary versions from
12 > > > transgaming ... those work with the newest glibc ...
13 > > > - -mike
14 > >
15 > > Don't buy codeweavers wine stuff as it doesn't work with the latest
16 > > version of glibc. I'll be downgrading glibc soon. Built glibc with nptl
17 > > support as someone here said it would work that way but it doesn't here.
18 > > There is also a bug in the glibc ebuild when you enable nptl, which I
19 > > must report.
20 > >
21 > > tony
22 >
23 > Downgrading glibc is a bad idea... anything built against the newer
24 > glibc version will break...
25 Yeah, been there done that :) In this case there are only a couple of things
26 built against the latest glibc and they can fail at this stage.
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28 tony
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