Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | Rob Glover <> | Subject | Re: insmod.c patch for 2.1.x |
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Well, libc5.4.9 is a bigger download, is pretty easy to install, just untar in /, and is likely to fix more stuff than just insmod :>
-Rob
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Ray Auchterlounie wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961019143846.252A-100000@dial-sc1-11.iway.aimnet.com> you wrote: > >Don't use the insmod.c patch..... get libc5.4.9. that fixes everything :> > [...] > > Including fixing all the programs that broke with previous libc upgrades ? > > The insmod patch is likely to be: > > * much smaller to download > * much easier to install > * much less likely to break other stuff > > Also, insmod should be patched anyway (in addition to fixing libc), if > only to give a more informative error message (like "incompat. libc"), > as there are likely to be a lot of older libcs around. > > ray > > -- > Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> > "Forty Two! Is that all you've got to show for > seven and a half million years' work?" > >
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