Re: [Evolution] Mandrake 7.2, Gnome & Evolution

[Alec Peden <pezking jaded org>]

source code is source code, there isnt different version for different
libs. problems come when binarys are linked against different libs, ie
glibc 2.1 and glib 2.2. So --rebuild'ing the RH7 SRPMS isnt a problem. I
have been doing this for the last few days without a problem. 



On 09 Feb 2001 13:08:52 -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > I actually tried the Redhat 6.2 snapshots and got it to work rather
> > nicely.  the only 2 problems that I found are the snapshots are from Jan
> > 30th and in my version at least, none of my mail filters work.  I'm
> > using an IMAP Mandrake 7.2 server to hold my mail and I connect to it
> > with my laptop. I have had any lost mail yet! :-)
> >
> > This weekend I am going to download the source snapshots for redhat 7
> > and rebuild the rpms for my machine to see how that works.
>
> Why the RH7 sources, instead of the latest RH6.2 sources? I thought it was
> only the binary snapshots that haven't been made, since the Ximian packagers
> ran out of disk space on that machine? Won't the RH7 sources have calls to
> the GLIBC 2.2 libraries, that might not exist in the GLIBC 2.1 libs?
>
> > I can't use the current prebuilt rpms form the Redhat 7 directory
> > because they want GLIBC 2.2 and Mandrake 7.2 is GLIB 2.1.
> >
> > I think rebuilding the rpms might be easier than trying to upgrade to
> > GLIBC 2.2
> >
> > I guess I'll know soon enough!
>
> Let us (and me!) know. Maybe you can upload them somewhere that others can
> get, until the packaging team gets the new disks, or the time to pacakge for
> a different distribution.
>
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