Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-04-02 Thread Konstantin Kivi
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:34:20PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > However I don't really like 8i, since it needs much more (and it should be > written as MUCH MORE) resources than 8.0.5. I know there is one aspect of > using 8i on linux when c

Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:04:36AM +, Jose Marin wrote: > I originated this whole thread in debian-user; the app that does not work > for me is the F compiler from Imagine1 (www.uni-comp.com/imagine1). It's > a free (as in beer) commercial compiler, which has been recently made > available i

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-25 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat > > > compatibility libraries to be able install it,

Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-24 Thread Jose Marin
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote: > Is it possible to run stuff that is linked against glibc-2.0.7 (rh5.2 used > that, so I imagine a lot of commercial stuff linked against that, or at > least people have old commercial stuff linked against it and would rather > not pay for a new version.)

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat > > compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle. > > FWIW, I'm running Oracle 8

Re: glibc-compat and upgrading from Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP method.

2000-03-24 Thread Taupter
Hello all I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken). I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from CDs. Did anyone try this way? Worked fine? Taupter

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Andor Dirner
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Weigel wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > > > Why not glib

Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:33:29 +1100 > From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: glibc-compat ??? > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > Strange. If i

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Weigel wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > >

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Petr Cech
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:09:23PM -0500 , Eric Weigel wrote: > I've thought about compatibility links, but like you said, they're both > libc 6.0. LD_PRELOAD > Overall though, there doesn't seem to be a lot of broken stuff. A friend is bitching about broken aplix(sp?). Thing is, it works on RH6

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Eric Weigel
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > > have? > > They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > have? They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so know which one you wanted? Any apps which run on 6.0 and

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Taupter
> > It seems we don't have such "compatibility" packages for Debian; > > what am I missing? Could one install slink's glibc2.0 in a > > non-obstrusive way under potato or woody? > > Maybe you could use alien and install the rpm? I thing potato and > woody is totally commited to 2.1 >