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James Miller wrote:
>
> > libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.4.44 (BL3 library)
> > libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so (SW81 library)
> 
> This is really interesting, Sindi.  "BL3-enhanced"?  
> Please let us know how things work for you.  I'm 
> guessing you might run into Xvesa problems like Steven 
> was having (certain apps just seem to not want to run 
> under it).  

If you're going to upgrade to more powerful libraries, 
you might as well upgrade to a more powerful Xserver.
That will avoid all those Xvesa incompatibility issues.
Xvesa is really just a mini-Xserver with the ability 
to run on a wide range of video cards.  You will get 
a better X display (and far fewer incompatibilities) 
by using the Xserver designed specifically for your 
video card.

> It could really enhance BL3 if newer versions of Opera 
> would run under it.  

I'm more interested in Firebird.  I've got an old version
of Firebird running on BL2 (using the same library upgrade 
that Sindi used on BL3).  It would be great to see Firebird
running on BL3.

> Also interesting how compiling will work.  

The glibc2 compiling libraries are about ten times larger
than the libc5 ones, so I would recommend using libc5 for
personal compiling.  However, if you intend downloading 
sourcecode and compiling it, you will find that some of
it (particularly the fancier stuff) expects capabilities 
not available in libc5.  To compile such sourcecode, you
will need the full glibc2 libraries (and a bigger HD :-)

Cheers,
Steven

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