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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Nono, we're a source-based distro.  Not RedHat.

This problem is proving more difficult than I originally thought - I have
actually uploaded and installed gettext, glibc, binutils and gcc from
another compatible system, and things *still* aren't compiling.

Nice little mess.

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:38:49 -0600 (CST)
Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Could we offer a pre-compiled i386 glibc+gcc spell to assist in the
> upgrade? Not sure how that would work...
> 
> -casey
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Adam Clark wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We seem to have a problem with our upgrade path if your glibc and gcc
> > are too old (I wonder how well the stable grimoire is going to handle
> > this).  If our glibc is 2.2.5 and gcc is 3.1, we run into a chicken/egg
> > problem.
> >
> > In this scenario, glibc won't update because gcc is too old.  gcc's
> > compile craps out with the libintl_gettext issues.  binutils won't
> > update cleanly until gettext/glibc are recompiled.
> >
> > What does one do in this case if they don't have the possibility of
> > doing builds on another system and moving the builds over?
> >
> > --
> > Adam Clark, Chat Section Maintainer, ISO Forger
> > Grimoire Gurus Cardholding Member
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> >
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