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I felt the pain transitioning from libc5 to glibc 2 a long long time ago. Glad I never had to do that again.
by mrlonglong 5y ago
I felt the pain transitioning from libc5 to glibc 2 a long long time ago. Glad I never had to do that again.
- anyfoo 5y agoHah, I remember that. The pain was acceptable in my case since I was still at school and did this purely for "fun" because I wanted to. Both this move to glibc and the prior move from a.out to ELF taught me an incredible amount about Linux (and unixoid systems in general) because I had to rebuild pretty much everything in the system by hand, reading everything's READMEs and learning a bit more about them. (My system at the time originally came from a distribution installed by CD, but was then never upgraded the official way but only move forward with source tarballs, i.e. no package management. I got that luxury much later.) Fun times.
- mrlonglong 5y agoFor a few years I built my system using sources leached off freshmeat.net. Discovered Gentoo and never looked back since. Although they do cock up once in a while, they can be forgiven since they're entirely volunteer run.