Philip Molter <philip@stripped> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:26:04AM +0300, Michael Widenius wrote:
> :
> : Hi!
> :
> : 3.23.50 is basicly just a bug fix release compare do 3.23.49a
> :
> : There is however two things one should be aware of regarding 3.23.50
> : (both only affecting our Linux x86 binaries (normal and RPM's):
> :
> : - We have switched to a new updated glib library, because we found a
> : critical memory corruption bug (introduced by us) in the old glibc
> : library that we used to compile 3.23.49.
> : (older MySQL binaries are not affected by this problem)
> : - We have changed compiler to gcc 3.0.4 (because the old gcc compiler
> : we used couldn't compile with an alternative glibc library).
>
> Does this affect people who compile MySQL on their own on Linux?
> If I have my RH7.2 box and I compile my own version of MySQL, am
> I going to hit these memory corruption issues?
No, as we don't use a glibc patched in this way.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
