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Red Hat's libc5-compatibility package incomplete
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Oct 7 14:57:55 1998
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 07 Oct 1998 14:57:37 -0400
[This note is partly a reminder to myself.]
Red Hat 5's "libc" package, which contains libc5 shared libraries and
related files, is incomplete. In particular:
It doesn't contain some reasonably common shared libraries, so
libc5 programs that want them will get the libc6 versions and quickly
segfault. (On a related note, RH ships an old version of ldconfig
which doesn't support specifying per-directory default types for
libraries which don't explicitly require libc.)
It doesn't contain a symlink from /usr/lib/zoneinfo to
/usr/share/zoneinfo, so libc5 programs that want to display the local
time lose.
We should probably issue a package remedying these, because there's a
lot of libc5 software in lockers out there.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
