In a previous article, gthaker@atl.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker) says:

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>Yes, this must be 'ln -sf'. I made the mistake and had a very difficult
>time getting back. (I eventually just gave up and reinstalled SLS.
>Even after I recovered from this mistake the programs I compiled would
>core dump before reaching main(). IT does not seem easy to upgrade
>to lib?.so.4.4 and gcc 2.4.5.)
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Sorry to disagree, but I found it an almost flawless and effortless upgrade.
Even compiling GCC myself was almost trivial, even if it did take 5 hours.
I would suggest that you re-read the docs, reinstall GCC and the libs. 
Throwing out your whole system in order to reinstall your libs and compiler
is way overkill.

Kevin Jacobs
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