Re: Berkeley DB : Solaris : gnome-libs

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On 09/13/00 00:55:24 +1100, "David T. Bath" <bathd edipost auspost com au> 
wrote:
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| sparc rpm files into cpio files, then simply unpack.
| While many files look for librt.so.x, copy libposix4.so.x
| to librt.so.x and the basic tools work.  You will need
| to edit the gnome-config script, replacing -lrt with
| -lposix4.  You can then start recompiling things like
| libgtop and gtop (getting rid of the libgen.so dependency).
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Uh, you're doing something seriously wrong if you need to copy libraries to 
satisfy dependencies.  I've been building the Helix GNOME SRPMs on DU4.0, 
RH5.2, SuSE6.3/6.4, and Solaris 2.6 and 7 without any such hackery.

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