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Date:	Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:27:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Shawn Leas <sleas AT ixion DOT honeywell DOT com>
To:	Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
Cc:	Andre Luiz dos Santos <andre AT netvision DOT com DOT br>,
	beastium <beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl>
Subject:	Re: libc-5.4.22?!?
In-Reply-To:	<19980913232212.07025@cerebro.laendle>
Message-Id:	<Pine.HPP.3.96.980913162304.17930A-100000@ixion.honeywell.com>
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Sender:	Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
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On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 04:11:00AM -0500, Shawn Leas wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> > 
> > RedHat has glibc 2.0.6+ a bunch of patches making it 2.0.7 or something.
> > That's just fine for a libc, and your libc5 is just there so you can run
> > most Slackware stuff.
> 
> he asked libc-5.3 vs. libc 5.4, this is an issue  independent of glibc and
> slackware.

But when he's running RedHat he isn't even going to use his libc5 to link
the egcs/pgcc binary, making it a non-issue.

I think he was just worried about the stated requirements on the web page,
and in particular one that only applies when using libc5 as the default
libc on your linux system.

-Shawn
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