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

> > > In what order did you install the two packages glibc.tgz (SW71) and
> > > solibs (SW81)? It appears to me that the compiler will break if I
> > > would have installed SW71 libc-devel first. However, I just installed
> > > SW71 libc-devel on top of SW91 solibs. After installing linuxinc,
> > > I was able to successfully compile busybox-0.60.5 with gcc-2.95.3.
>
> I celebrated too soon. :( The busybox that I compiled has a dependency
> upon glibc-2.3.2. Somehow, gcc works with the glibc2.1 headers to
> link against non-devel glibc-2.3. So mixing libc versions does not work
> for me.

You compiled it on a computer with SW91 solibs and SW71 glibc?
At least it compiled even if it needs SW91 solibs to run.

> > I installed SW71 glibc, compiled a few things with it, then SW81 solibs in
> > order to use Opera, and then ar would not work (binutils) and I could not
> > compile.  I tried uninstalling both glibcs and it was still broken and
> > whatever else I did only made it worse and I had to start from scratch.
> > I saved the old setup to test sound cards and it does not work with a few
> > that I had marked working 'as sb' (not actually sb).
> >
> > Are you suggesting that I uninstall glibc from SW81 then install solibs
> > from SW91 then reinstall glibc from SW81 (or install from SW91, which is
> > larger and therefore to be avoided if possible)?  Otherwise will solibs
> > overwrite something important (header files?) in SW81 full glibc?
>
> AFAIK solibs does not contain header files, so there is nothing to
> overwrite, except glibc-2.1 solibs.
>
> I wonder if there is any reason (other than size) to not upgrade to
> glibc 2.2 or 2.3? make-3.80 won't even build with 2.1, but will with
> uClibc or 2.2. And most precompiled software that is available
> today is for glibc 2.2 or 2.3.

Can I compile for SW91 solibs (dynamically) if I have that plus an earlier 
glibc, having first deleted glibc, installed the later solibs, then 
reinstalled glibc older than the solibs?

I would rather not create this sort of hybrid. So far SW81 glibc/solibs 
and compiler have worked except for libtiff and fbutils.

> glibc-2.3 solibs is only 150k larger than glibc-2.1.
It is the full glibc which is a lot bigger.  But if I delete libc*.a it 
will save a fair amount of space.


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