Re: Why Gnome RPMS need to work with RH 5.2

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com> writes:

> [My apologies to users of non-RH distributions. You can skip this message,
> because you aren't affected by these problems. If you wish, you can gloat.]
> 
> It's pretty clear by now that the latest Gnome RPMS don't work well with
> Red Hat Linux 5.2. There seem to be two real problems:
> 
>  1) The RPMS are out of date.

Yes.

>  2) The RPMS are linked against glibc2.1, which is part of RH 5.9,
>     not RH 5.2 (the current stable version).

Not true. As has been explained a couple of times here before,
these RPM's are linked against glibc2.0. However, they 
are compiled against egcs. (The version of egcs shipped
with 5.2, in fact)

The consequence of the second thing is that you can't use
those libraries with applications compiled with gcc,
so if you want to compile other GNOME applications 
against these libraries, you'll temporarily have to make egcs
your default compiler.

The other potential problem is that there were at one point
briefly other RPM's on the site (not from the Labs) compiled 
with gcc; if you have a mixed set, you may have difficulties
that you can solve by upgrading the entire set with:

 rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm

Sometime in the next week, I think we'll be making up a
new set of 5.2 RPM's; we'll probably recompile these with
gcc to prevent further difficulties of these nature. But the
current packages do work fine on stock 5.2 systems and
have been extensively tested there.

Regards,
                                        Owen