On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:37:00PM +0100, Tom Mackey wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install Kylix on a Mandrake 7.2 system. My version of glibc
> (2.1.15 I think) has the loader bug problem. The patch to fix this on the
> Borland site seems to be 72MB !!. (hardly downloadable on normal phone
> lines). Could I upgrade to glibc2.2.x or would that upset programs that
> might be expecting the previous version.
I'm not on MDK, but I'm using the latest glibc2.2.x. I've got the 30MB
download of Kylix PE, and it's working fine here. The only problem was a
neverending fontmetrics problem on the first two attempts to start it
(it was just chugging away doing nothing - close that window if you get
it, and Kylix should start).
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