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Sindi wrote:

> > BL3 grep is part of a large multipurpose program called busybox,
> > (type busybox to get a list) and has limited abilities.


> 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

It seems to have stopped compiling due to a typo in the source code.

Slackware 4 bin.tgz contains both sed and awk.
Again, BL3.5 has busybox versions which have limited abilities.

There is no need to compile your own.  The latest version probably expects 
a recent gcc, which might be more tolerant of errors such as missing 
separators.  Congrats on getting set up to compile, but BL3.5 gcc and 
libc5 are difficult to compile with.

If you upgrade to glibc 2.2.5 from Slackware 8 you can use the gcc etc 
from there (which require 2.2.5).  They worked well for r8169.

> > Slackware 7 uses glibc 2.1.3, Slackware 8 2.2.5, SW11 2.3.6.

> > 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.

Steven can explain about broken Czech links.

You can upgrade to 2.2.5 using the 920K operalib.tgz at my site, which is 
the solibs from glibc. 2.2.5 and anything else needed for Opera 8 and 9 in 
BL2 (BL3 needs two more libraries).  Steven's misc-libs is assorted X 
libraries that you add to the glibc 2.2.5 package.  You don't need X, or 
most of what is in the glibc package (documentation, locale....).

Run ldconfig after untarring the package tar -zxvf operalib.tgz
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Sindi Keesan