On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:33:21PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for this Redhat 7.1 user?
> He is trying to build lyx from the SRPM and having problems.
>
Does he really need a rebuild for 7.1?
I've just installed xforms and LyX from binary RPMs on the network I
admin. It works perfectly well. I have adjusted my 7.1 image for my
particular environment though (e.g. enabled old a.out binaries by
starting appropriate modules from rc.local). But LyX is an ELF built on
6.2 and should work.
If he really needs to recompile from SRPM then the suggestion is to try
kgcc. I remember someone mentioning problems with Red Hat 7.1 gcc (some
application was crashing) and avoiding them with kgcc. I'll try to look
through my old e-mail if that is necessary.
I had similar problem with Ghostscript 7.0 SRPM. Binary didn't work
correctly on a 7.1 system (it was compiled on 7.0). It didn't want to
compile. So, I grabbed Ghostscript 6.50 binary compiled for 6.2 and
it works like a charm.
It seems that 6.2 is the most stable version of Red Hat. 7.0 didn't want
to compile kernel (sic!) and 7.1 obviously has some bugs (I personally
sent a patch for quota over NFS to Red Hat). It's really annoying. One
has to update because of the security, but if we continue to lose
stability that's a strange trade-off.
Regards,
Zvezdan
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Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
