Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:32:08 -0600 (CST) | From | Aaron Ucko <> | Subject | Re: Update for "keeping the most important linux packages update..." |
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>> Sometime, Alessandro Sigala wrote (I'm adding this to make it clearer - bryn): >> > - Linux C Library 5.3.9 >> >> I don't know if it's already been included, but if they're going to >> upgrade gcc, libc, and ld.so, they'll probably have to recompile make. There >> is a version of make (source, of course! :) ) that has the dirent bugfix >> already patched.. you should find it at your favourite SunSITE mirror, in >> linux/devel/make/make-3.74.patched.tgz. There's prolly a precompiled ELF there >> as well. >> >> BL. >> - -- >> tyketto@unomaha.edu >> bradl@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au >> >Is this the same dirent bug that broke make at libc-5.2.16(ish)+, or a >totaly new one ? > >Do people with new distributions (RedHat 3.0.3, I'm not sure if slackware >has a new release), and people aready on libc-5.2.18 (as I am), who fixed >make once, need to fix again (ie it's a new problem), or have we done it >already (ie it's the same problem) ?
I'm pretty sure it's the same problem. BTW, you should probably be advocating libc 5.2.18 instead of version 5.3.9, as the latter is not officially considered stable.
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