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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, monz wrote:

> I'm concerned about screwing up my BL3 by adding glibc from
> Slackware 8.1.

It is small - experiment on a second copy in another partition.
Boot with loadlin from DOS.

I think I simply added glibc, which did not replace libc5.

> What about fixing screen so that it compiles for me? I had
> a gcc.tgz package from somewhere which worked, and I replaced
> it with the ecgs sysem which I found in the Slackware 4 repo.
> Screen required me to install quite a few dependencies, but
> when I tried to compile it with ecgs it didn't compile.
> I think i'll quote the output of that in my next post.

I only compiled kermit with BL3 (and help from kermit) long ago.

Try to compile an older version of screen.
The compiler may not handle newer source code.

> -monz