I have been told that I probably need the features of glibc 2.1 for some of the development I am doing, however, I don't want to risk an upgrade to unstable at the moment.
Is it possible to get the upstream library, install it in /usr/local, and then compile certain packages against it (static or whatever is fine for the moment) without disturbing the rest of the system? Will I see full benefits of newer conformance symbols and everything? How much work am I looking at to do this? I have never done it before and if it's going to be really confusing or require knowledge of many strange compilation options or both I will probably just brave unstable. Thanks for any advice you can offer me. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."
