Re: where is a safe place to install glibc??

[Flavio Veloso]

Hi John.

This file is not needed nor used at runtime. It is (as the comment
suggests) used only by ld(1) when building shared objects. The actual
C runtime library lives in /lib (libc-$VERSION.so).

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, John Lumby wrote:

>    --- correct typo and mention something else ---
>
> where I said
> or /lib (where some ancestral libc.so lives).
>
> I meant to say
> or /usr/lib (where some ancestral libc.so lives).
>
> Also - I noticed that this /usr/lib/libc.so is not actually a real libc at
> all - it is some kind of ascii comment-file:
> its contents are:
> /* GNU ld script
>    Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
>    the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
> GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a )
>
> I'm not quite sure what the reference to ld means, but I infer that this is
> a kind of symbolic-link-lib pointing whoever accesses it on to the glibc
> lib.so.6 and then to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a?
>
> My question is still - where should I install my upgrade?
>
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Flávio