212160 - Release notes for Mozilla 1.4 says glibc 2.2 is required although glibc 2.2.4 is (version `GLIBC_2.2.4' not found error)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Hello!

On the main page www.mozilla.org in the Download Mozilla box it states
"Linux (glibc 2.2.4 or better)" is required for Mozilla Release 1.4
but on the release page for this version
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/installation.html#linux
it asks for "glibc 2.2" only.

Don't mean to be fussy but this is definitely a bug in the documentation :-)

I've read the release note and was stunned that although
I met the requiremets mozilla did not run. 
I have GNU C Library stable release version 2.2.2 and
thus get
./mozilla-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2.4' not found (required by
./mozilla-bin)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the release notes
2. Have glibc 2.2.2 installed
3. Fail to run mozilla 1.4 on Linux

Actual Results:  
Be confused!

Expected Results:  
Be happy!

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

-> fixed