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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sean Parker wrote:
> > Would it be worth it to staticly compile stuff for BL3
> > against uClibc.
>
> I've had to do this already.  The current version of
> busybox no longer works with libc5.  Same with Xvesa.
> So BL3 contains static uClibc versions of busybox and
> Xvesa.

Would the BL3 Xvesa that you compiled also work in BL2?
Is there any chance of your posting an xvesa add-on for BL2 that could be 
used INSTEAD OF your bl2-x.tgz package and all those other packages?
I still have not got Xvesa working with the added fonts in BL2.  I 
installed (copied over) about 1-1.5MB of mostly library files and 
everything else works except fonts, which it can't seem to find.

And Realaudio won't install in my version for some reason but maybe it 
wants a faster computer.  It would not install even in the full X version 
on that computer.

Opera and some other precompiled packages (recent versions) won't work 
with BL3.  The add-on would be greatly appreciated, and could it include 
icewm like bl2-x.tgz does?   bl2-xvesa.tgz

I know you are more interested now in BL3 but please don't entirely 
abandon BL2.  I have been suggesting it to a friend who wants to set up a 
full-size linux on a P166 for a Mac person to learn programming on.  He 
said SW7-1 would not install right, wanted frame-buffer.  BL2 installed on 
any 486 or 586 I tried it on, including a couple that other linuxes (SW9.1 
etc.) refused to accept for some reason.  (Did not like the monitor?)

> > What I mean is do you save that much space
>
> A static uClib version is certainly much smaller than
> a static libc5 version.  But a dynamic libc5 is still
> smaller than the static uClibc.

Would a dynamic glibc (libc6, 2.1.3) Xvesa be larger or smaller than the 
static uClibc that you compiled?

> > and/or does it allow you to compile newer
> > versions of program than you could with libc5?
>
> Yes.  Although I am running into relatively few programs
> that fail to compile on libc5.  A much bigger impediment
> is Xvesa.

Impediment in what way?

> Cheers,
> Steven
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