Greetings, On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:34:18AM -0900, Britton wrote: > > 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?
I had to do the following: - upgrade the debian package binary (i.e.libc and libc-dev) to 2.1 this went smoothly and required only a few upgrades. - build install the new libc to /usr/local without upgrading the debian libc packages, my version of gcc (namely a self-built egcs 1.1.2) would fail to build the libc. I think you can savely downgrade the debian packages when done to 2.0 again, to have a slink installation and no half-upgraded system. You then can use your self-comiled libc for developing and such - but you cannot uninstall debian libc without breaking major dependencies and having to rebuild large parts of your system manually ;-) Greetings, Tilman. __ this part of the mail is still under construction
