On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Bart SCHELSTRAETE wrote: > Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > >On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:20:42PM -0600, Doug B wrote: > > > > > >>If I understand correctly, it seems the reason to jump a major version > >>is because the new glibc breaks binary compatability. > >> > >>OK... that makes sense. > >> > >>Why then would RedHat introduce a new glibc into RH 8 that breaks > >>compatabilty with some programs (wine comes to mind and apparently > >>VMWare)? Shouldn't they have patched the glibc version that shipped > >>(and worked) rather than break RH 8 with a new version? > >> > >> > > > >Do you know for sure that it breaks things? I'm about to install > >it today ... > > > > > Yes! It break things!!! Reportedly, VMware is one of the things that breaks, but the patches in ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update25.tar.gz seem to fix that issue. I just ran VMware on a fully up2date RH8 system and it seemed just fine. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
