On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brian Widdas wrote:

> There is a full glibc package in the Slackware contrib, but you have to be
> very careful when installing them - there's a symlink to libc5 (I think
> it's in /usr/lib) which will get overwritten during the untar process, and
> this will trash your existing libc, leaving you with an unusable system
> which you have to rescue with a floppy. And, becuase this occurs half-way
> through, it doesn't fully install glibc, either. From what I found,
> removing the symlink seems to solve the problem.
> 
> But... even after installing glibc, and altering the GCC configs as per
> the instructions, it still doesn't compile Coda...

Hmmm..I guess I'll haveta check more into it...

--Aaron