dryphone <andsal@nospam.inwind.it> wrote:
> in effect I don't do development.
> I sould install only the "solibs" versions then.

Yes. The glibc-2.3.2 package is different FROM it in that it includes
the header files (.h) and the NON-stripped version of the library,
plus documentation and some other development tools (like profiler,
tracer), nothing you will need if you don't develop programs yourself
(although you will need the headers to just COMPILE other programs
from source). The solibs package includes everything you need to RUN
programs, compiled against the shared C libs.
If you install BOTH, as -solibs comes later in the alphabet, you
get the headers from the development packages, but the libraries from
the -solibs one. Unless you explicitly install them the opposite way,
of course (but everything in solibs is also in glibc-2.3.2, as far as
I know, so then you wouldn't need the -solibs one).
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