Because eglibc
and
glibc
were already fairly close, this
replacement should not require any significant changes to other
software that links to eglibc
.
However, there were a number of minor changes in
glibc 2.20
upstream that could require
patching some software (e.g. the removal of the
_BSD_SOURCE
feature test macro).
glibc 2.20
requires version 2.6.32 or greater
of the Linux kernel.
Thus, older kernels will no longer be usable in conjunction with it.
For full details on the changes in glibc 2.20
,
see the upstream release notes
here.