This is all unneccesary. The doom source code has been released, doom would be in debian but for a minor licence problem. Get libc6 .debs of it at http://kitenet.net/programs/debs.cgi#doom
Daniel Martin wrote: > Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Daniel Martin wrote: > > > > > > Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > > > > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. > > > > > > > > What packages are these in? > > > > I had a look in oldlibs, but I'm not entirely sure what I should look > > > > for, so O didn't find anything. > > > > > > You want the xlib-compat package. I believe that this package has > > > finally disappeared from Debian 2.1, though, so you'll need a 2.0 > > > (hamm) archive or CD. > > > > I have the cheapbytes 2.0 CD, and that doesn't seem to have an > > xlib-compat package on it. :-( > > > > Any ideas where else I might look? > > Sorry; It's called xcompat, but you're right - I can't find it in 2.0 > at all. You may have to go back to 1.3.1 to find it. Assuming you > can't find someone with a 1.3.1 CD, you can get the xcompat and libc4 > packages (which I just pulled off my bo CD) from: > http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~dtm12/ > > md5sums: > > c3c4652f43e110de58fe4cec2a22771d xcompat_3.1.2-4.deb > e161434c2d952ffce8c286d9343ff45a libc4_4.6.27-15.deb > > Unfortunately, I can't include the sources to these packages, as I > happen to have... misplaced my bo source CD. > > Why, you may ask, were these packages dropped from Debian? Well, > basically, because a.out is such an ancient binary format that it > should really be forgotten, and all of the support tools necessary to > make it work make continuing support of a.out format a somewhat > onerous burden. > > Besides, these packages can't be built with the current Debian tools, > so it would take some amount of work to bring them up to the state > where they could be included again - it's not merely a matter of > taking on a whole load of rarely-used packages. > > That said, I've been wondering why one of those emulators we've got > floating around couldn't be made to run libc4 a.out format... -- see shy jo
