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

I added the glibc solibs packages from SW81 to BL3:
> > pkg /hd/tgz/glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i368-2.tgz  (from Slackware 8.1)
....
> > This is the most useful 1.7MB 'add-on' I can imagine.
> >
> > And this 'upgraded' BL3 occupies much less space than BL2, especially as
> > regards the compiler packages.  I can also just copy over some other
> > packages I compiled with BL2 (antiword, photopc, bmv), and use the
> > Delilinux links2 with SVGAlib on laptop computers without 16-bit color.
> >
> > What reason would there be to use BL2 now?
> > ---------
>
> 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).  It could really enhance BL3 if newer versions of Opera would run
> under it.  Also interesting how compiling will work.  Anyway, please keep
> us posted on further "BL3-enhanced" developments.

So far all the old programs still work, such as Abiword, icewm, and links. 
(The delilinux links2 requires four other libraries for SVGAlib graphics, 
and bmv requires one of them).

The new programs that I tried work:  lynx-2.8.5 (I installed the whole 
package but you really only need lynx lynx.cfg lynx.lss and cert.pem). I 
did not copy over kermit because it requires ncurses and I have compiled a 
non-ncurses version for BL1/BL3 that is also newer.  antiword is okay too.

No problems of any sort.  I probably could have just added the one libc 
file instead of the package (maybe with a symlink) but the rest of the 
package was relatively small (including documentation).  I have not yet 
tried compiling.

I presume you could also add libc5 to BL2 and run most BL3/SW4.0 programs 
that way, such as Steven's links2.

> James
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