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

On Sat, 6 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Sat, 6 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> > > I also deleted a file called 'magic' which said it was
> > > needed to play games.
> >
> > /etc/magic has nothing to do with games.
> > It was a mistake to delete it.

I copied the BL3 magic to BL2. It is about 10% as long.  You must have 
trimmed out all the irrelevant things about games and SunOS and mips.  It 
works there (I think) but the prompt was still #bash and my path was not 
set.  I noticed I was also missing /tmp and /proc and /sbin - the last of 
these fixed all my problems when I copied the files via floppy disk.

> Thanks, I will copy it back.  I thought it said at the top that it was
> needed for games.  What exactly does it do?

> What are the minimum files needed from glibc solibs for use with most
> programs? Qemu seems to need libc libm libutil libdl and ld-linux.
> Opera needs libresolv and libdns to work online.

I really doubt that I need libBrokenLocale but it is only 4K.  libc and 
libm and ld are the only large ones.  What do the lib_nss libraries do?
The solibs packages only has documentation for ldd.

What are the /usr/bin/db* files from the full glibc used for?  There are 
dozens of them all with doc files.  The 
/usr/lib/*.o files?  I deleted all of gconv and /usr/lib/*.a or .la.  I 
left /usr/include files.


Sindi