glibc version in Ubuntu 10.04!

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 24 May 2010 13:41, Naresh Mehta <nareshtechs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to compile Ofono in Ubuntu 10.04. I have a problem with the
> glibc version number. Ofono needs a version >2.16 whereas 10.04 gives 2.10.
> Upstream of glibc is at 2.9. Why is ubuntu 10.04 stuck at 2.10? Is there a
> reason for that and/or are there any plans to upgrade the library later on?
>

How about testing for API/ABI and functions instead of version numbers?

> Previous versions of Ubuntu had glibc package available which is not
> available with 10.04. It would be great if somebody can throw some light
> here.
>

Maybe because Debian & Ubuntu stopped using glibc? =) we use eglibc
and it is at latest stable version

www.eglibc.org


> Please do guide me to the appropriate mailing list if this is not the
> intended one.
>

This is not the correct mailing list.

ubuntu-users or ubuntu-app-devel channel on freenode. There is also a
developing subforum on ubuntuforums.