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

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > Just execute:
> > > ln -sf /usr/bin/cpp  /lib/cpp
>
> > What normally makes this link?
>
> Usually, the doinst.sh script that comes with the package.
egcs?  I did not reinstall that, just glibc and linuxinc.

> > C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check.
> >
> > Netpbm will not compile properly on 2.95.6, says the README,
>
> I didn't know that 2.95.6 existed. Maybe it is even better than
> 2.95.3 for certain source code?

Not for netpbm, he said.

> > I did not have any /usr/include/linux to remove.  What package normally
> > makes this link, which I probably broke at one point trying to shrink
> > glibc?
>
> linuxinc is supposed to put the headers in /usr/include/linux. Where
> did your copy put them?

I did not have a /usr/include/linux even after reinstalling linuxinc. 
Maybe I goofed somehow.  It works now that I made the link.

> > > Now set up a new symlink:
> > >
> > > ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/linux /usr/include/linux
> >
> > Could I instead of rm -rf and ln -s, just ln -sf?
>
> Maybe. I'm not sure what this will do if /usr/include/linux is a
> directory.
>
> > I have a /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 to which is symlinked libz.so.1 (it was
> > not removed for some reason) and there is no libz.so.1.2.3 anywhere on my
> > computer, including the directory where I just compiled libz.  I think the
> > libz people are assuming you have a more recent linux that comes with this
> > file, instead of providing it for you to compile.
>
> You should be able to compile it. Maybe there is a configuration file that
> you can edit to build the shared library?

I will try to find one.  The shared libraries were built by default for 
libjpeg and libpng.  I think for zlib there was a 'configure'  (Not at 
that computer now).

> > I would rather provide a package with the .so libraries since they are
> > also used by other programs (such as zgv and delilinux links2 with svgalib
> > support, but the BL3 links2 is statically compiled; so is ghostscript, I
> > think).
> >
> > libz.so.1.2.3 ?60-70K   libz.a 79K
> > WHERE DO I FIND THIS?  I could compile statically with libz.a since
> > it is small, I guess.

> Are you using SW81 development libraries? You should get libraries
> and library source code from SW81. The netpbm programs will then
> probably not work on a stock BL2.

SW81 full glibc, everything else SW71.  I tried to use SW81 glibc-so and 
SW71 full glibc and thoroughly messed up BL and had to start over.

To switch compilers do I need gcc-2.95.3 and gcc-g++-2.95.3?  Anything 
else from SW81?

What do you mean by development libraries?

I am not compiling for stock BL2 but for upgraded to glibc 2.2.5, which is 
what I needed for Opera or precompiled xpdf or precompiled curl and 
openssl.

> Use SW71 instead for BL2 binaries.
>
> > I have the version you made for BL3 already, and have not run into any
> > programs I want that are not in there.  Do you recall which ones would not
> > compile?
>
> There are too many to list.

The ones I wanted did compile.  I have little idea what most of the others 
do.

> David