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> Steven, if you add the gtk and gdk stuff and libXi does Seamonkey work for
> you with glibc 2.3.1 from Slackware 9.0?   And a 2.2 kernel.
>
> If so, perhaps you could package the two dependencies from Slackware 9.0
> including glibc 2.3.1 libc libm and ld-linux.  The rest is found in
> Slackware 7.1.


Slackware 9.0 glibc 2.3.1 solibs is not much more than 1 MB (even with man 
pages).  The full package needed for compiling is 14MB but most of that 
appears to be locale, zoneinfo, gconv, man, doc, info, and a few small 
binaries in bin and sbin.  To compile, do we need anything from the larger 
package other than the libraries themselves, and /usr/include/*/, assuming 
we already installed the full 2.2.25 package?  (I deleted locale, gconv, 
man, doc, and info from that package already).

Just upgrading solibs breaks the compiler and is difficult to reverse.
I don't think removepkg did the job.  You have to manually delete 2.3.1 
files and run ldconfig, probably from ramdisk or loop linux.

I don't know a way to make older and newer libraries coexist and use the 
older ones for compiling.  So upgrading the solibs means anything compiled 
in future will require the newer solibs.

Will the Slackware 12 libraries work with kernel 2.4?  If so, it might 
make sense to upgrade to them instead of 9.0 and be able to use packages 
and libraries from Slackware 12.  Are they much larger than 9.0?

glibc-2.2.5.so - 1.237 MB (SW8.1)
glibc-2.3.1.so - 1.262 MB (SW9.0)
How large is glibc from Slackware 10?
glibc-2.3.6.so - 1.422 MB (SW11)
SW12?

How much more RAM does 200K extra of glibc use? 
Is there some way to tell how much RAM each library uses?

I would use BL2 or BL3 upgraded to glibc 2.3.1 for laptops (with 16-32MB 
RAM), with Opera 8.54 and/or Seamonkey 1.1.15 (which uses less RAM?), but 
later/larger glibc for desktops to allow use of precompiled browser 
packages that need GTK2+ including Firefox 3, Midori and recent Seamonkey.

You can put 512MB RAM into any desktop made in the last ten years.
I still really like the structure of BL, but 'old hardware' is not what it 
was when BL first started.  I had BL1 on a 486 with 12MB of 30-pin 
SIMMs (that took 10 minutes to load Redhat with X).  BL3 is still ideal 
for this age computer.

Sindi