Re: rpm doesn't work anymore after installation of glibc 2.3.1

[Andreas Schwab]

Kuno Baeriswyl <address@hidden> writes:

|> Hi all,
|> 
|> I did an upgrade of glibc 2.2.5 by compiling and installing the glibc
|> 2.3.1 by myself. No errors appeared and everthing seemed to be ok during
|> these steps.
|> 
|> I got the Suse 8.1 dist, that provides glibc 2.2.5, GNU make 3.79.1, GCC
|> 3.2, ...
|> 
|> I did following steps:
|>   tar -xzf ./glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.1.tar.gz --directory ./glibc-2.3.1
|> 
|>   mkdir ./glibc-build
|> 
|>   cd ../glibc-build
|> 
|>   ../glibc-2.3.1/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons
|> 
|>   make
|> 
|>   make install
|> 
|> 
|> Now, if I enter rpm, the terminal says:
|> 
|>   address@hidden:~> rpm
|>   Speicherzugriffsfehler  (EN trans: memory access error)

You need to recompile rpm against the new glibc.  There is no guarantee of
binary compatibility for statically linked programs.

Andreas.

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