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Alan Cox wrote:

> > I am porting Linux version 2.2.12 to Mips R3000 and need to build glibc
> > but I could not find the following files:
>
> Oh no not again.
>
> 2.2.12 is historical value only. It has remote vulnerabilities and shouldnt
> be used for anything.
>
> >       glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz
>
> glibc 2.0 is also obsolete, heavily so

We use 2.0.6 here because it is half the size of the newer glibcs and it seems

to work fine for us.

/Brian