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2009/12/20  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>:
> BL3 grep is part of a large multipurpose program called busybox,
> (type busybox to get a list) and has limited abilities.
> Try grep from Slackware 4.0 (use the brasil mirror at the BL3
> site, Slackware 4.0, slakware, a6, grep.tgz). You can
> tar -zxvf grep.tgz (in /tmp) and copy the binaries
> grep egrep fgrep (what do you do with egrep and fgrep?) to
> /usr/bin.  The rest is unnecessary locale and docs.
> (Many packages also include libraries used by the binary but
> I checked and grep does not).


Perfect - it now works =) I'm trying to install iptables (which is
stated to work on all 2.4.x kernels), and after I upgraded grep I got
to a new error - turns out I needed awk. I found one at
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/awk.tar.gz that works perfectly
out of the box. So on to the next error: I now need a sed that does
not truncate output. Although your explenations have helped a lot, I
stil don't fully grasp how all the different versions of everything
fit together, but I tried downloading sed 4.2.1 from
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/517300/sed.html. I am able to
configure it successfully, but when I try to make it I get errors.
Here are the last lines:

make[4]: Leaving directory '/mnt/hd/installs/sed-4.2.1/lib'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/mnt/hd/installs/sed-4.2.1/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/hd/installs/sed-4.2.1/lib'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/hd/installs/sed-4.2.1/po'
Makefile:75: *** missing separator. Stop.
Make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/hd/installs/sed-4.2.1/po'
Make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/hd/installs/sed-4.2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2


> Slackware 3 and 4 use libc5.
> Slackware 7 uses glibc 2.1.3, Slackware 8 2.2.5, SW11 2.3.6.
> BL3.5 is based on Slackware 4.0, BL2 on Slackware 7.
> They can both be upgraded to glibc of any version.
> But BL3.5 also uses libc5-based X and some newer programs
> require newer X and it is not easy to update X in BL3

X is the graphical interface, right? Because in that case, I don't
mind since I don't use it.

Also, upgrading is made somewhat harder by the fact that the link at
to misc-libs.tgz at http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/library.html is
broken... And misc-libs gets a lot of different hits on google.