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{{Admon/caution|Do not build or install this software as the root user.|Do not build the software as root, and do not install the software into the system directories. Doing so may cause conflicts with other software on the system and/or may leave your system in an unusable state, and may be very difficult to reverse.}}
# Build an open source software package## Select a an open source software package from the [http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html Free Software Foundation's GNU Project]or another open source project.## Download the source code for the software.(Do not install with dnf/yum!)## Build the software. You may need to install build dependencies (e.g., compilers, tools, and libraries); you can do this (and only this) as the root user.## Test that it works.## Find and build the source code for the latest released version of the GNU Standard C Library (glibc). Test the library which you have built (Critical: do this without installing it on your system and overwriting your existing glibc installation!). Prove that your version of the library is used in your tests.## Blog about the process, your results, your observations, and what you learned.# Build and test glibc## Obtain the source code for glibc via git using the instructions at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/Builds## Build and test your version of glibc. '''Do Not''' install it into the system directories or you may destroy the existing Linux installation!
