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Re: glibc-2.8 tarballs?

From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu dot edu>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 22:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: glibc-2.8 tarballs?
References: <1210931249.32286.9.camel@marc> <alpine.LRH.1.10.0805162007150.7508@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu> <20080517195934.573e02a8@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:17:00 -0400 (EDT)
> Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
> > ...I'm happy to wait for a 2.8 release if it's not ready yet, 
> > but I wouldn't like to think there will be no more public 
> > glibc releases (and it's all Fedora-private).
> 
> There's really nothing private about Fedora.  You can checkout 
> the Fedora glibc directory and run "make sources" and it will 
> download whatever sources (including tarballs) that were used to 
> build the Fedora package...

Thanks for the tip.  Somehow I feel more comfortable building 
glibc from an "official" versioned tar.gz, though maybe that is 
just superstition on my part.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC

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