Jason W
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Posted: June 05 2008,15:45 |
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Thanks curaga. I had stopped at building 2.3.2 from source since your last post is not the first time that I read of 2.3.2 being buggy in and of itself. And with the 2.3.2 in base DSL appears to be a Debian package, it surely has some patches and fixes that the bare source would not. Just evidently not as much patching/fixing as in the latest Sarge version updated as of last year. And this latest Sarge version seems to have bugfixing that has been backported from the later releases of glibc.
If I make a go at building a glibc I will build 2.3.6 since by all accounts it seems pretty mature and stable. But Sarge's 2.3.2 is only a few kilobytes larger than the libc6 in base DSL. And with Flash, BOINC, and the compiling that I have done the last couple days, Sarge's libc6 seems very solid and compatible with some newer things. I have put my machine to the test and I have not seen any issues arising from the updated libc6.
It would be nice to see how 2.3.6 would perform, and perhaps I will build it in the next coming weeks to test drive. It would be nice to keep around for those apps that would require it and no less.
EDIT: Getting off topic, but I am running Firefox 3 RC2 now that I also installed a couple of other Sarge debs - libgcc1, and libstdc++6. Some newer stuff could be run with these libs, but Swiftfox requires a newer glibc. But the gtk1 build of Firefox from lamarelle.org does work. And those two .deb packages are only about 400kb compressed, with the docs and man pages and all. I think an extension of these libs would be handy.
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