Re: Problem With Local Installation of GLibC 2.5.1

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Amit Kumar Dhar <akdhar@cmi.ac.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I, am using a shared Debian 2.14.3 system, as a non-privileged user. I
> installed GlibC 2.5.1 locally in my home folder from source issuing
> the following commands-
> ./configure --prefix=/path/to/my/local/
> library/directory/
> make
> make install
>
> Though the installation phase went on quietly, with some "clock skew"
> warnings, but after "make install" it showed an error, complaining
> that it cannot write the configuration file. After that many of my
> applications are giving segmentation fault.
> Can anyone help me regarding how to uninstall GlibC 2.5.1 and then
> reinstall it locally correctly?

There is no way to uninstall glibc, this is why distributions use
package formats which track all of the files installed by glibc. The
package format allows the package manager to remove all of the glibc
files. One possible solution is to install  exactly the same glibc to
an empty prefix, record all the files it installed, and remove those
files from your /path/to/my/local.

Building glibc is not easy, what was the error you received when
installing? You should run the testsuite via `make -k check` and
verify there are no critical failures.

Does that help?

Cheers,
Carlos.