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Re: libc versioning question

From	Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: libc versioning question
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Date	2012-02-27 12:31 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Cat22 wrote:
>    I have a (precompiled) program that requires libc 2.11 but i only
> have libc 2.10. Is it practical or even possible to put the 2.11 files
> in some directory then run the program using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> environment variable so it would use the 2.11 versions? I dont think you
> can just upgrade libc and libstdc++ on my system without wreaking havoc
> can you? I do some C programming from time to to time, but I have not
> had to really ever consider the versions of these libs in the past so I
> just dont know what can or cant be done there.
> Thanks
> Cat22

Upgrading libc 2.10 to libc 2.11 (a minor version upgrade) should not cause 
any issues. That said, you can play it safe and go the LD_LIBRARY_PATH path 
(pun intended).

> mandriva 2010.0 x86_64

Maybe you should consider upgrading your Mandriva 2010.0 to at least 2010.2. 
The 2010.2 version had no significant structural changes from the 2010.0 
version and is very mature, stable, and polished.

The 2011.0 version had some major reworking, in particular the change to 
systemd boot script, so it is a more significant upgrade.

Regards.
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libc versioning question Cat22 <cat22@invalid.org> - 2012-02-26 15:51 -0800
  Re: libc versioning question Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2012-02-27 12:31 +0000
    Re: libc versioning question Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-02-27 16:15 +0000
      Re: libc versioning question Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2012-02-27 17:23 +0000
        Re: libc versioning question Cat22 <cat22@invalid.org> - 2012-02-28 00:49 -0800
        Re: libc versioning question Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-28 09:24 +0000
        Re: libc versioning question Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-02-28 14:47 +0000
  Re: libc versioning question John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2012-02-28 08:06 -0800

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