On 99-11-30 Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > > > Package: libg++272 (main)
> > > > > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > 47212 [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
> > > >
> > > > Here we need the help from the M68K-Team to find the bug and a solution
> > > > for it.
> >
> > > This is a more general issue. Currently even on i386 libg++272 does
> > > not build with a gcc272, which was built on potato. We would need a
> > > glibc-2.0 based build environment, I doubt this is worth the
> > > trouble. Currently there are only the following packages dependant on
> > > libg++272:
> >
> > > netscape & communicator
> >
> > > and optimizer (Does not compile with gcc-2.9x and egcs). The
> > > maintainer wanted to remove this package for the slink release. But
> > > it's still there ...
> >
> > So, can we surely remove the package without breaking much stuff? What
> > does the maintainer say about this issue?
> Um, removing the package will make netscape not function. Do we really want
> to do that(the netscape maintainer).
Does netscape really needs libc5?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /opt/netscape/netscape
-r-xr-xr-x 1 shorty users 6959236 Nov 3 1998 /opt/netscape/netscape*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd /opt/netscape/netscape
libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40018000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4001a000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40062000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4006b000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40081000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40093000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400a2000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400ae000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4014d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40151000)
libg++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2 (0x4022d000)
libstdc++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x40265000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40299000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
This Version oft Netscape doesn't need a libc5 and is running very well here.
So why do we need the libc5 version?
Ciao
Christian
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