Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Brian M Dial <bdial rkkengineers com>]

Sergio Brandano wrote:
> 
>  Hello Miguel,
> 
>  I am really willing to sort out this matter, and I acknowledge for
>  the help you are giving.
> 
> >>>Ok, this indeed suggests me that you have a broken compilation
> >>>system.  Perhaps some files were deleted by fsck after a system crash?
> >>>Try looking at /lost+found or /usr/lost+found
> 
> >>  ... it is empty.
The upcomming Slackware 4.0 Release will not have glibc2.  This is
however the laste libc5 based slackare release.  The next release will
be glibc 2.1 built.

Gnome is quite compatable with both Slackware 3.6 and Slackware
4.0beta.  In fact, I've created .tgz slackware packages for the 4.0 beta
release.  They're at

ftp://rasputin.linuxos.net/pub/slackware-packs/gnome

I've emailed the ftp maintainers of ftp.gnome.org and am awaiting a
response regarding these packages being put into the main gnome ftp.  I
havn't tested these on 3.6, but they should work provided you update
things like libgr.tgz and gimp.tgz from the slackware-current tree (to
get the necessary upgrades of libjpeg, libpng, gtk, glib, etc...)  

The biggest problem I see most people having compiling it is they accept
the default PREFIX for things like glib and gtk which is /usr/local. 
However, slacware installation of the gimp puts gtk/glib in /usr/X11R6
and you wind up having version conflicts, undefined references, and a
whole heapload of trouble.

-Brian


>  I am using the latest Slackware (3.6), where gcc-2.7.2.3 and libc5.4.46
>  are installed. You referred to glibc-devel, so I guess you are using
>  glibc-2.1 instead of libc5. If glibc-2.1 is strictly needed, then
>  I have to give up with that tar-ball until either it will be
>  rewritten for a less demanding libc, or the kernel will adopt glibc
>  and gcc will be able to use it. The forthcoming Slackware 4.0 will
>  have glibc-2.1, it seems.
> 
>  Cheers,
>  Sergio
> 
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