[cod] The "PB" folder isn't there.

[Steven Hartland]

Not sure about everyone else but we already have the ability
to run GLIB 2.3 apps but we have found them more unstable
than old 2.1, perhaps this is a lib issue perhaps not hard to
tell but I know hl2 has had quite a few issues with 2.3 bugs
on certain distros :(

On that subject do you have a recommended version of
2.3 there ryan?

    Steve / K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" 
> <rant>
> Well, you're going to have to get used to it sooner than later...modern
> Linux distros are basically forcing me to it.
> 
> The COD2 server doesn't need glibc2.3 because it doesn't spin any
> threads (even for DNS lookups! Hooray, Quake 3!  :)   ), however
> programs that do (just about everything else) will behave badly if
> linked against glibc 2.1 and run on the latest glibc, which now ships on
> all the major distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, etc...)...frequently this
> manifests itself as the program just sort of hanging up for no apparent
> reason.
> 
> In the short term, there's the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 hack, but
> eventually, with no better alternative in sight, I'm going to have to
> force everyone to a relatively recent glibc.
> 
> Obviously, we won't change this for shipping titles like ut2004 or COD2,
> but I'm telling you now: start making contingency plans, because future
> titles will need the upgrade (and if not my own projects, almost
> certainly other people that are shipping Linux binaries but don't know
> the issue won't take the time to build against a glibc from six years ago!).
> </rant>


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