Karsten Bräckelmann put forth on 10/24/2010 6:34 PM:
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 18:02 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Don't know about Ubuntu but Fedora 11 is already EOL'ed so there's no need to fix it for that. Didn't realise that glibc 2.10 was that rare.
How old is glibc 2.10?
I thought Debian Lenny (which I use) was old. It's approaching two years since release. It currently has glibc 2.7, which was apparently released in 2007, 3 years ago. This would lead me to belive that glibc 2.10 is _very_ old. I'm not very familiar with glibc. Maybe age doesn't matter?
It's a version number, generally major.minor.micro. It's not a floating point number.
7 < 10, and thus 2.7 is older than 2.10.
Ahh, thanks for pointing out my error. I was thinking "2.1" not "2.10". So I'm on a much older version of glibc. I guess since I stick with distro packages I'm safe from this particular problem, since such packages are compiled against the glibc 2.7 of the distro.
-- Stan