Re: Debian base creation

2001-11-04 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Sunday 04 November 2001 07:30 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > That version of glibc will have been in unstable for some time, and > developers compile against that. Packages don't have to be built against > the exact same version of glibc due to the way shared libraries work. ahhh, I see, I was unde

Re: Debian base creation

2001-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:35:50AM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > how do the guys at debian compile the base system to be linked with the > version of glibc that ships with base system?? That version of glibc will have been in unstable for some time, and developers compile against that. Pa

Debian base creation

2001-11-04 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, how do the guys at debian compile the base system to be linked with the version of glibc that ships with base system?? do they chroot themselves into /chroot with the correct glibc and then procede to compile?? or am I all wrong, and they do soemthing else?? thanks for any info Sunny Du