Glibc 2.2 configure problems

[chaoticNight]

I'm trying to upgrade from glibc 2.1 to 2.2 and am having considerable difficulty.

After struggling with linuxthreads I've finally gotten past that error and now I can't install it because it's saying that my Kernel Header files are too old or in the wrong place when I run ./configure

I looked around for some Kernel Header Files and the only ones I can find available for download are in RPM format, and I have a very old version of RPM that for some reason won't allow me to install the files due to an error in it's name. Ugh, anyone know where I can find the latest Kernel Header Files? I'm using 2.2.16 on a Slackware 7.1 machine.

I'm actually in the process of updating everything so I can use 2.4, and this is truly a pain in the ***. I'm having problems even updating rpm, but that's a whole other issue entirely.

thanks..


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[Daedra]

First off if your using slack the easiest way to go about this is to use the Slack pack (.tgz) thats what there there for, go to www.slackware.com (http://www.slackware.com) and go to the packages link and select the D section and download
glibc.tgz. Once you got it downloaded execute this command as root

upgradepkg glibc.tgz glibc

and thats it

[chaoticNight]

Thanks for the tip. I've tried updating several packages using the upgradepkg command, and it seems to be successful.

However when I check to see if it worked and I check the version listed of the new packages it says that they are still the old ones.

don't know what this is about.

thanks..


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