[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Hmm... OK for what? You said you needed David Engel's patch, you didn't say why :-)
The effect of this patch on libc5-altdev will be to remove the "Conflicts: libc5-dev" line from its package description. This is part of the scheme worked out in bug report #15859 to allow libc5 users to install libc6 while keeping a development environment that generates libc5 binaries. (I.e. they keep libc5-dev and all the other libc5-based -dev packages, and do not install libc6-dev. They also refrain from upgrading gcc. The hamm versions of gcc conflict with libc5-dev, so that's ok.) Is this the patch you meant? It is [based on] the one David Engel mailed to debian-private on Monday. I'm having some problems building it on my hamm system, by the way. I had to install altgcc and libc5-altdev because the build process referred to files in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1. I'm trying again now, so it will take a couple of hours more. Richard Braakman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
