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

> This time it compiled for a page, with some warnings about explicit braces 
> and defaults but then exited with what I suspect is a big problem:
>
> /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1:  undefined reference to 'atexit@@GLIBC_2.0'
> collect2:  ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [playmidi] Error 1
>
> I don't know why you need libgpm to play midi files, but I think the source 
> code is not going to compile with glibc2 unless it is modified to do so. 
> David, do you want to try compiling this one for BL3 (and it could be used in 
> BL2 with libc5, just like the netpbm programs)?  I should put a compiler in 
> BL3 but then I would need to point it at libc5, since I also have libc6 in 
> BL3.
>
> I now have a collection of object files in .o:  emumidi.o io_ncurses.o 
> patchload.o playevents.o playmidi.o readmidi.o  but some of the .c files did 
> not compile:  beat.c io_gtk.c (I don't use gtk), io_svgalib.c, io_xaw.c, 
> seq2mid.c, toy.c.

> > > I will look around for playmidi binaries.

> Thanks.  But it might be easy to just compile for libc5.  I was compiling in 
> BL1. Please remind me how to point the compiler at libc5 so it won't use 
> libc6 since I have both in BL3 in order to use the lynx that I compiled 
online (and xpdf and opera eventually).

I could temporarily rename libc.so.6 and libm.so.6.  There are also 
ld-linux.so.1 and .so.2 - what do I do with these?

I need binutils.tgz egcs gmake libc and linuxinc to compile (in much less 
space than for BL2, 20 instead of 100MB?).