Hello.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 01:35:46PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > So, before the quoted change is was possible to upgrade glibc from
> > source on a running system, but as of 2.34 this is no longer
> > possible.
> 
> In my experience, it has always been required to use “make install
> DESTDIR=…” to update a running system, and then move the resulting
> temporary tree into place with a single command.  (The elimination of
> symbolic links actually makes this step more reliable because there
> are no older glibc .so files left behind.)  It never occurred to me
> that we regressed this functionality because it didn't actually work
> before for me.

I wasn't aware of the DESTDIR=… option, and interestingly that worked
like a charm.

Problem solved for me, thank you!