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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:33:43 +0100
From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@ragnar-hojland.com>
To: Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Which version of glibc?
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:47:30AM -0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> 
> Should I upgrade to glibc-2.2.5 for linux kernel compilation?
> 
> I'm on gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.1.3
> 
> What about gcc?

Follow Ketils advice :)

> I'm asking this now as Xfree86 is just release and it's build with glib22.

Upgrading glibc to 2.2 now is a good idea.  2.1.3 had some sort of
floating point bug, and I'm not all sure it had full support for big files.

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