Bug #59614 glibc 2.3 described as 'fairly recent'
Submitted: 19 Jan 2011 16:24 Modified: 27 Jan 2011 18:08
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:any OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

[19 Jan 2011 16:24] Peter Laursen 
Description:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/supported-os.html

Supported platforms listed include "Linux, builds on all fairly recent Linux distributions with glibc 2.3"

According to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/ (and similar resources) glibc 2.3 is now not 'fairly recent' anymore (the last 2.3 - 2.3.6 -  seems to be from the year 2005) 

(and I also believe that some of the (dynamically linked at least) Linux binaries provided by MySQL/Oracle are built on systems with a higher glibc version than 2.3.

How to repeat:
See above

Suggested fix:
Update documentation.
[19 Jan 2011 16:35] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for the documentation request.
[27 Jan 2011 18:08] Paul DuBois 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.

Changed to:

Linux. Builds on all recent Linux distributions based on the 2.6 kernel.