> I've got a nicely humming, heavily modified RedHat 4.2 with a 2.1.96 SMP
> kernel. I want to use glibc for development, and so far no-one has
> provided any tips on how to install glibc on a RedHat 4.2 system without
> having to upgrade to 5.0. Unfortunately from what I've read on this
> mailing list, the upgrade from 4.2 -> 5.0 is far from painless. I hope
> RedHat will improve the upgrade process from 4.x systems, since I really
> don't want any significant downtimes due to some stupidities in the
> upgrade process.
> Any comments on this from the people in the know?
First, if its running nicely, why do you want to upgrade? And your
worried about stability, yet your running a 2.1.x kernel?
There are several things you can do, without destroying your existing 4.2
installation:
- install a second hard disk, used to dual-boot between the two
- install 5.0 as a 'change-root' install, meaning you'd basically get 5.0
on one console, and 4.2 on another
- Download the 5.0 glibc libs from sunsite, and install them in an
alternate location, and add that location to your /etc/ld.so.conf, so
libraries that require glibc libs will use them, otherwise use the default
4.2 libs. Haven't actually tried this, but it may require a few other
changes, like the installation of a second /usr/include tree...
Dave
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