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>4.1. Obtaining and compiling the source</H1
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>There are several versions of glibc available, but not in all cases are
new versions really better than the old ones. The best thing you
can do to find out which works and which ones you should not use is to
check out the different forums on the Internet. If you have
someone to ask, talk to him about the topic. Maybe he already has
installed the new version and might be able to tell you that version x.y.z is a
PITA, but version a.b.c works really well!</P
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>I decided to install glibc-2.2.4, as I was told it
works well, but it is your decision which one to choose.</P
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>Ok, now let's go to work:</P
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>Get the source from <A
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>; as I said, I used version 2.2.4.</P
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>Unpack the source: <TABLE
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>tar -xzvf glibc-2.2.4.tar.gz</PRE
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>In addition, you will need a package called
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> found in the <TT
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> Make sure you get the version that
corresponds to your glibc source tree.</P
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>Copy the linuxthreads package to your glibc source directory: <TABLE
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>cp glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.4.tar.gz glibc-2.2.4</PRE
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>Change to the glibc directory: <TABLE
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>Unpack linuxthreads: <TABLE
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>Configure the package:<TABLE
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>./configure --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads</PRE
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> This will configure the
package in such a way that the linuxthreads are included in the
compile; this is necessary for compliance with other
Linux systems. For example, programs you compile will probably
not run on another machine if you forget to include this
package.</P
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>Afterwards, start the compilation of glibc:
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> This may take some time (about half an hour on my
Duron XP, running with 1.5 GHz).</P
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> Now that the library is compiled, everything is ready for the
installation, but things are not as easy this time.
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