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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > Stephen Clement wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't recognize the binary because its an ELF
> > > binary, not a.out.
>
> > It doesn't recognize the binary because Slackware 7.1
> > binaries are glibc2, and BL3 has libc5.  Both glibc2
> > and libc5 are ELF.  The a.out binaries were pre-libc5.
So you were trying to use Slackware 7.1 binaries? Try Slackware 4 binaries.

> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
>
> I am planning to put BL3 with perl from SW3.2 on a 486 with 12MB RAM 
> and a huge 350MB hard drive.  I first put it onto a pentium as a test 
> (it worked, after pkg'ing perl1.tgz, perl2.tgz and libdb.so from 
> libc.tgz) and some of the files are in a directory labelled i586-....  
> Does this mean I cannot use this version of perl on a 486?  If so, 
> does SW2 have a version that would work or would it be a.out instead 
> of ELF?  When did SW switch to libc5?  How did they manage to get 
> through libc1-4 before SW3?

A few things:

libc4 etc. were not necessarily used with Linux and GNU existed before 
Linux, that's my best guess.
libc5 was used in SW4, i'm not sure about earlier versions.

From what I gather your best bet on perl would be to use the one from 
Slackware 4 or 3. Anything from Slackware 7.1 is too far ahead for BL3.

Thanks,

Stephen Clement