Hi All.
I know that I'm reposting....
As You know libc.so.6 is linked to libc-2.3.2.so.
Now...
in the 9.1 distro we have two libc-2.3.2.so.....

from /var/log/packages...

glibc-2.3.2-i486-1:lib/incoming/libc-2.3.2.so size
1458907
glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1:lib/incoming/libc-2.3.2.so size
1281816

wich is the best ?
or better
what shall I do before doing a mess ?

Thank's in advance for reply

Andrea

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On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:40:48AM PDT, dryphone wrote
in article <kbumb.350453$R32.11526484@news2.tin.it>:

> glibc-2.3.2-i486-1:lib/incoming/libc-2.3.2.so size
> 1458907
> glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1:lib/incoming/libc-2.3.2.so size
> 1281816

> wich is the best ?
> or better
> what shall I do before doing a mess ?

well, depends on what you're planning to do.
do you want to compile things or not ?

after you answer this question, read the package descriptions.
and answer your own question.


Jurgen.

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dryphone <andsal@nospam.inwind.it> wrote:
> glibc-2.3.2-i486-1:lib/incoming/libc-2.3.2.so size
> 1458907
> glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1:lib/incoming/libc-2.3.2.so size
> 1281816
>
> wich is the best ?

Neither, they're identical.

The one from "solibs" is stripped, does NOT contain debug info anymore,
while the one from the development package DOES, just execute
$ file libc-2.3.2.so
on the libraries from both packages...
glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1:
libc-2.3.2.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
glibc-2.3.2-i486-1:
libc-2.3.2.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
^^^
If you don't do development, just install only the "solibs" versions,
it's smaller. You can still compile against it the same.
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Eef Hartman ha scritto:

> Neither, they're identical.
>
> The one from "solibs" is stripped, does NOT contain debug info anymore,
> while the one from the development package DOES, just execute
> $ file libc-2.3.2.so
> on the libraries from both packages...
> glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1:
> libc-2.3.2.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
> glibc-2.3.2-i486-1:
> libc-2.3.2.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
> ^^^
> If you don't do development, just install only the "solibs" versions,
> it's smaller. You can still compile against it the same.

Eef,
I thank You very much for the answer.
I'm still a newbye....
I didn't think about
file......

in effect I don't do development.
I sould install only the "solibs" versions then.

Andrea

dryphone wrote:
> I'm still a newbye....

that's an interesting spelling of the word 'newbie'. hope you're not afraid
of being run out of the NG? ;-)

--
Joost Kremers
since when is vi an editor? a discussion on vi belongs in
comp.tools.unusable or something... ;-)

dryphone <andsal@nospam.inwind.it> wrote:
> in effect I don't do development.
> I sould install only the "solibs" versions then.

Yes. The glibc-2.3.2 package is different FROM it in that it includes
the header files (.h) and the NON-stripped version of the library,
plus documentation and some other development tools (like profiler,
tracer), nothing you will need if you don't develop programs yourself
(although you will need the headers to just COMPILE other programs
from source). The solibs package includes everything you need to RUN
programs, compiled against the shared C libs.
If you install BOTH, as -solibs comes later in the alphabet, you
get the headers from the development packages, but the libraries from
the -solibs one. Unless you explicitly install them the opposite way,
of course (but everything in solibs is also in glibc-2.3.2, as far as
I know, so then you wouldn't need the -solibs one).
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** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. EWI/TWA **
** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman@math.tudelft.nl, fax: +31-15-278 7295 **
** snail-mail: P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands **
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