Ah yes, thank you, I knew I'd forgotten something,
Here goes...
I'm running  libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk,
gcc-c++-2.96-0.76mdk,
gcc-2.96-0.76mdk,
and gcc-cpp-2.96-0.76mdk
on Mandrake 8.2 at present.

I do not know if all those are relevant but they're some of the
things that are on the dependencies list:

[root@shredder clib]# ls
glibc-2.3.2-5mdk.i586.rpm  libstdc++-devel-3.3-7.i386.rpm
libstdc++-3.3-7.i386.rpm
[root@shredder clib]# rpm -Uvh ./*
error: failed dependencies:
        initscripts < 6.91-18mdk conflicts with glibc-2.3.2-5mdk
        libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3)   is needed by libstdc++-3.3-7
        glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-8mdk
        glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-8mdk
        glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.4-25mdk
[root@shredder clib]#

------
Is that of any help?  <:-)


Eric.



=======================
>I think that you'll need to tell us a little bit more.  For the most
>part, you don't want to upgrade your glibc anything but minor versions,
>more than that can be a real pain.
>
>What applications are you trying to run?
>What are the errors?
>Which distribution are you running?
>
>		--Ted