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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > maybe I will leave this newest library.  Is there 
> > anything else that should be added from SW81 to 
> > make it a complete set of compiling libraries?  
> 
> binutils
> gcc
> kernel-headers
> make

kernel-headers says it is needed to compile system software, which I 
presume means kernels.  Would we want to use the sw81 compiler software to 
compile an SW71 kernel?  If not, do we need this file for compiling 
general C++ programs (for a course where everyone else is doing Windows)?

 > 
> > There were five files that I added for compiling 
> > - should I replace the other four as well to get 
> > something consistent?  
> 
> The advantage of doing that is you end up with 
> GCC-2.95.3, which is often recommended as the best 
> version of GCC to use.

Okay.  If I change to an SW81 kernel am I now using SW81?  (With older 
programs that are upward compatible).  Not that I need a different kernel, 
just curious.  

> 
> > If I leave the new glibc how do I remove the old one?  
> 
> I wouldn't worry about the old one.  It won't cause any harm.
> If you really want to get rid of it, have a look in /lib.
> You will see several parallel files:  one with a 2.1.3
> designation and one with 2.2.5.  The relevant symbolic link
> will be pointing to the 2.2.5 version.  You can simply delete
> the 2.1.3  version.
Thanks, I will do this once we get the new compiler stuff working.

> > I recall doing a removepkg once when libraries were involved 
> > stopped BL2 from working.  

> Don't use removepkg for this.  It wasn't designed for this 
> situation (where a different version of a library was installed 
> right on top of an active library).  Removepkg might accidently 
> remove something vital.  

OK.  It is great having Opera.  I notice that if I try to download several 
things at a time with wget, they all go slowly and then when one finishes, 
the other does not speed up.  With Opera it somehow allots each of three 
downloads roughly equal resources and when one is done, the others go 
faster.  I dont'know if Opera will resume broken downloads.  Is there any 
other program we should try now that we have the new glbic? This comptuer 
is our fastest, with 128M  RAM and 500MHz cpu and 8G har drive.  


> Cheers,
> Steven
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