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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> > Used statically-compiled (uclibc) apps for a while.
>
> As you probably know, BL3 has a statically-compiled
> foundation.  It boots happily and does many useful
> things with an empty /lib directory.  This static
> foundation will increase in verion 3.5.  Four
> executables that depend on libc5 in version 3.4
> will be static in version 3.5.  This will make it
> easier to transition BasicLinux to uClibc when
> (if) the uClibc people release a version that's
> going to remain compatible for more than a year.

You mean compile dynamically against it?

> > Screen has the best cutting and pasting functionality
> > in the world.  No other application compares.  I
> > really miss that.
>
> A while back I tried compiling screen for BL3, but
> I ran into a brick wall.  I don't recall exactly
> what the exact problem was (library? kernel?) but
> it just wouldn't go.

The earliest version I found for Slackware was for 8.1.
Did you try libc5-dynamic or uclibc-static?
Karolis may have finished uclibc-2.2.26-headers by now.

> > I'd love it if someone would make screen graphical.
> > It _is_ if you run it in an xterm :-\
>
> Does screen even need an xterm?  From my reading it
> appeared that screen could function right on top of
> X without wm/xterm.  Or did I understand wrong?

I use screen instead of X and xterms - why do both?

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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