Glibc versions

stan stanb at panix.com
Fri Aug 8 10:29:57 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:50:46PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:27 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to build 2.6.0p1 on a Ubuntu machine. As far as I know this
> > machine is the latest version of Ubuntu. The configure script fails on the
> > check for glibc version 2.2.0 or newer. I am curious if this version of
> > glibc is so new that it would not be in the Ubuntu stable release yet?
> 
> Nope -- I think it was released in 1998.  They're up around 2.2.16 now.
> 
> Look at the end of the logging section of config.log -- often this is
> caused by path problems, or by a missing pkg-config.
> 
I forgot I was working on Linux. I had not installed the -dev version of
the package :-( Stupid rookie mistake.

Thanks.

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zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
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