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

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > If I were to compile with SW81 would the result work
> > with BL2 and the upgraded glibc?
>
> Usually.  The only issue I can see would come
> from compiling on a 2.4 kernel and running on
> a 2.2.  But that is unlikely to cause many problems.

No need, I got it working in BL2 on another computer.

> > CFLAGS -I /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include
> > I was told I can also put this in the environment
> > (how? export something in profile?)
>
> On my system /usr/include/linux is linked
> (ln -s) to /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/linux

I am missing this for some reason, probably deleted it somehow while also 
removing hardware related things I did not need (for Apple and Sparc....).
Do you know of any large category of things I can delete which glibc 
installed other than /usr/src/linux/asm* other than generic and i386?

MANY MANY THANKS - I have spent countless hours trying to puzzle this out.

ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/linux /usr/include/linux


> and  /usr/include/asm is linked (ln -s) to
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/asm-i386
I have this one.

I was just able to configure for ghostscript!!!!!!  No complaints about 
/lib/cpp being insane this time.

I will redo this after editing the part about devices in order to just 
compile for the printers that we have, skip most of the non-printer 
devices, and also add whatever is needed to display with SVGAlib.  In DOS 
this is 'al' (allegro) but I don't see it for linux - do you happen to 
know?  I have a DOS port of gs which takes a very long time to load 
because of all the device drivers and/or fonts, using al and ge devices.

Would it help if I compiled with ALL the devices and posted the result for 
general use (with upgraded glibc 2.2.5)?  I am not going to include the 
Asian fonts.

> > It did not help to reinstall linuxinc and make
> > (from SW71) and gcc and gccg++
>
> What's gccg++ ???

gcc-g++-2.95.3-i386-2.tgz from SW81 - maybe it is only needed for 
compiling c++ (I needed it once for something - arrow mouse?)

> > and glibc from SW81.
>
> You should normally get gcc, make, glibc and
> binutils from the same version of Slackware.
> linuxinc (or equivalent) should match your
> target kernel.

Oops. I had better remove kernel-headers from the other BL2 computer and 
put back linuxinc.   Is it okay to keep using gcc 2.95.3 instead of 
2.95.2?  (In case the SW81 compiler it requires the matching glibc from 
SW81 I have upgraded to it.)  It and make work okay on the other computer 
which compiles.


Thanks again!  I am excited.  Now I can try to compile kernels for the 386 
laptop and the cd-burner and scsi scanner after conquering ghostscript and 
ghostview.

 >
> Cheers,
> Steven