> > Can we test for this at configure time and spit out a warning
> > message to the user that they need to upgrade their version of glibc?
>
> I think most of the people who are getting bitten have installed PG from
> RPMs, so configure couldn't help them anyway.
::grrr:: I have nothing nice to say about RPM's and the headaches they
have caused me in the past. Is it late to lobby Linux and/or Red Hat
and ask them for a new package format similar to the ports tree?
::grin:: In any case, Tom, you're right again as always.
> Perhaps our future RPMs should have a dependency that requires glibc
> version >= first fixed version.
Far beit for me to disagree... was this bug in only Linux's
glibc?
-sc
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Sean Chittenden