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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
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> Steven, have you attempted or do you plan to 
> get Seamonkey working in BL2? 

No, I am reasonably happy with Firefox 1.5.
If there were a browser-only Seamonkey package,
I might try that.  But I am not interested in
the bells-and-whistles Seamonkey.

> Can I upgrade libX11 by just changing the 
> libraries in /usr/X11/lib to those from 
> Slackware 9.1 to match the SW91 glibc 2.3.2 

I suppose that would work, but I'm not sure
it is necessary.  

> in case this is some i18n (UTF?) incompatibility 
> problem and glibc has to match libX? 

I'm not sure that is your problem.

> Slackware 11 does work but it requires glibc 2.3.6, 

glibc 2.3.6 provides a good foundation.  It is 
the library that I am currently using on my BL2
installation (along with a 2.4 kernel).

> I don't want the entire enormous Xfree 4.3.0 package 

AFAIK it doesn't matter what library you are
using for your Xserver -- it doesn't need to
match the library of your X applications.
For example, it should be possible to run X
applications compiled for glibc2 on an Xserver
compiled for libc5 (that assumes, of course,
that both glibc2 and libc5 are present).

> Any other ideas?

I suspect the problem you are having with Seamonkey
is caused by cherry-picking libraries from different 
versions of Slackware.  IIRC one  of the libraries 
you needed for Seamonkey you took from Slackware 11.  
I suspect that if you do ldd on that library, it 
will be dependent on glibc 2.3.6.  IIRC you were 
still using an earlier glibc.  If that was case, 
the library you took from Slackware 11 might have 
malfunctioned (because it expected glibc 2.3.6).

Cheers,
Steven