Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Brian M Dial <bdial rkkengineers com>]

Add gdm to that list.  Gdm won't compile without the crypt library which
libc5 doesn't have.  I don't know if there are plans to make it libc5
compatable but I know as of yet you shouldn't even attempt it

-Brian

Sergio Brandano wrote:
> 
> >>>gnome-linuxconf-0.20
> >>>  make failed, details follow:
> >>>io.c:21: sys/select.h: No such file or directory
> 
> >>  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.
> 
> >No, I am using glibc 2.0.  But GNOME works pretty much on every
> >system.  I am starting to believe that the package you installed for
> >slackware is either incomplete or corrupt or that you need a separate
> >"development" package to be installed.
> 
>  I checked in both libc-5.4.46.tar.gz and gcc-2.7.2.3.tar.gz, but no
>  select.h file exists or can be generated by.
> 
>  I then checked in glibc-2.1.tar.gz;
>  the file appears in include/sys/select.h.
> 
>  It seems I have found something that depends on glibc.
> 
>  Sergio
> 
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