[syslog-ng] What is the last syslog-ng version that compiles under glibc-2.3.5 ?

Jakub Jankowski shasta at toxcorp.com
Fri Nov 27 23:44:20 CET 2009


On Friday 27 of November 2009, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>  	Hello All ,  Having just ran thru all of the changelogs I could find
> there is no mention of the change to requiring glib-2.10(or greater)
>  except when running './configure' ie:
> "
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.10.1... no
[...]
> 
>  	My system is quite old (ie: slackware 10.2 Circa 2005 ,  tho
>  faithfully kept upto date for bug releases & such .  There is no a
>  graceful way to update to a newer glib .

Try upgrading to glib2 (see below) from Slackware 11.0 (which has 2.10.3).

>  	Thus my question ,  What is the last syslog-ng version that compiles
> under glibc-2.3.5 ?  And will it be secure to run ?

Do not confuse "the C library" (glibc) with GLib. Versions 2.x of the 
latter are packaged as "glib2" in Slackware Linux.


HTH

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