The Testing Area :: January Extensions

Debian Sarge has a newer glibc than dsl, unfortunately. Woody is much closer.

IIRC, the version of libc6 in Sarge is the same(?) as DSL; but it was built on a machine with glibc-2.3.4 -- this can be verified by running './libc.so.6' on libc6 in the Sarge DEB.
I am guessing they compiled recent(?) versions of glibc on Etch (Etch uses glibc-2.3.4).
This seems to cause glibc-2.3.4-related symbols to appear in 'libc-2.3.2.so'.
This causes certain packages, when compiled, to give this error:

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/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by [binary])

It seems that, as a rule:
The version of glibc you use to compile a certain version of glibc should not be newer than the version of glibc on your target (e.g. DSL, other-distro).

Quote (curaga @ Jan. 20 2008,03:02)

Two extensions coming:

Gnucash.tar.gz - gtk1
Popt_dev.dsl

All three files included in those (ext, md5, info)
(Gnucash was too big for my email, and popt-dev just came along)

edit: gnucash pack is not packed with bz2, seems I mistakedly used -z instead of -j with tar.

Thanks for the Gnucash app. This one based on Gtk1 works seemlessly (and very fast I might add) on my tired old eTower 420i2 (Celeron 400 Mhz, 256 MB ram). I had been running the latest Window$ build on the fat32 partition, but it would take approx. 2 minutes to load. As an accountant, I very much appreciate having this extension working with DSL.

You're welcome

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IIRC, the version of libc6 in Sarge is the same(?) as DSL

Looks like you were right stupid_idiot (I only just got back to this thread). I never noticed these were both 2.3.2, only that Sarge binaries threw a glibc version error.

Sarge has glibc 2.3.2.ds1-22 http://packages.debian.org/source/sarge/glibc

DSL has libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 (according to dpkg)

(but website package list says 2.3.1-16, out of date I suppose, probably where I got the idea dsl's glibc was older)

Woody has 2.2.5-11.8

But why would Debian build Sarge's glibc against a newer glibc6? Seems nuts.

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