Re: ncurses & libc6

1997-05-27 Thread David Engel
dd-on. However, nobody except H.J. Lu sees any real benefit to doing it that way. Mike Dorman is currently packaging ncurses 4.1 for libc6. He hopes to have it ready later this week. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho

Re: S-Lang for use with libc6 uploaded (source, i386)

1997-06-04 Thread David Engel
at and /usr/lib/libc5-compat. These can be used to put old libc5-based libraries which conflict with new libc6-based ones. Second, the dynamic linkers need to be able to determine which libraries are for libc5 and which are for libc6. To facilitate this, each library must contain a run-t

Re: S-Lang for use with libc6 uploaded (source, i386)

1997-06-04 Thread David Engel
clever). Again, since you used a non-conflicting soname, you don't strictly have to do this. Doing it anyway would still be a good idea though. We need to get people in the habit of doing it. The way to get the dependency included in the shared library is to link it with "-lc"

Re: RFC: libc6 policy supplement 2nd try

1997-06-15 Thread David Engel
east safe to call a given library function if > you make sure only one thread is in the library at a time. That > should be easier to accomplish. Yes. It should be possible for a threaded application to use any library on the system, even if it must restrict access to that library from

Re: libc5

1997-12-05 Thread David Engel
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 07:01:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I think David Engel is working on an interim libc6 release. But it seems > there are quite a lot of packages to be worked on. > > Michael > > > -- > > Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EM

Re: Can we learn something from RH 5.0?

1997-12-07 Thread David Engel
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:59:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > > > I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed > > to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that problem > > Does there rpc.nfsd (or squ

Re: libc5

1997-12-08 Thread David Engel
; able to do that, so I prefer to have a libc5 version that is as > compatible with libc6 as it gets. What areas of compatibility are being worked on? I sure hope they have to do with binary compatibility because there is no benefit to adding source compatibility. David

Re: libc6 2.0.6 coredumps portmap (was Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa)

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
is a known problem. I'm waiting for Peter Tobias to figure it out. He's been out of town a lot lately so it's taking hime a while. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: libc6 2.0.6 coredumps portmap (was Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa)

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 05:52:32PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > This is a known problem. I'm waiting for Peter Tobias to figure it > > out. He's been out of town a lot lately so it's taking hime a while. > > On a related note, the -lp

Re: libc6 2.0.6 coredumps portmap (was Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa)

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
ebian to > the local network). Interesting. Rebuilding netbase and netstd with libc6-2.0.6-0.2 appears to fix it for me. I've put non-maintainer releases of both at ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 100

glibc pre-release 2.0.6-0.3

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
I've put another experimental pre-release of glibc-2.0.6pre3 at ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please test it and let me know how it works. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234

Re: glibc pre-release 2.0.6-0.3

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 10:52:04AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > I've put another experimental pre-release of glibc-2.0.6pre3 at > > ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please test it and let me know how it > > works. > > Does this include any

glibc pre-release 2.0.6-0.4

1997-12-12 Thread David Engel
ly depends on kernel-headers-X.Y.Z and has no provision for switching to kernel-source-X.Y.Z if the user changes between the two. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 7

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-12 Thread David Engel
ibc5. Volunteers have been asked for but no one has stepped forward. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread David Engel
had to have the same version, AFAIK. > > The problem is that libc5-dev doesn't exist in hamm. Hamm has > libc5-altdev instead. This forces people who want to compile libc5 stuff So find someone to modify the libc5 in hamm to build both -dev and -altdev packages. It isn&

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread David Engel
trust myself not to break such an important package. You should trust yourself more. It should be very easy. Just clone the section of debian/rules that builds the -altdev package, change a few paths and you're done. If you're not sure that your new packages are correct, ask other

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread David Engel
dev Definitely not! libc5-dev implies that libc5 is the default compilation environment installed in /usr/include. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UN

Yet another glibc pre-release

1997-12-23 Thread David Engel
I've put another pre-release of glibc 2.0.6 (pre5) at ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please note that I will be out of town for the rest of the week. Any problems will have to wait until I return on Saturday. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROT

Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

1997-12-29 Thread David Engel
./t > $ exit Use -profile instead of -pg/-lc_p when profiling, e.g. $ gcc -profile -o t t.c David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-30 Thread David Engel
n with glibc-2.0.6-1 fixed it for me. The new versions were just uploaded. Would someone with more RPC knowledge than me, hopefully Peter Tobias, please look into this. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: Missing libpthread0_7-1.deb?

1998-01-03 Thread David Engel
lict with libc6. To install libc6, you must uninstall the current libpthread0. FYI, libc6 conflicts with libpthread0 because they both provide libraries with an soname of libpthread.so.0. The libpthread0 package (for libc5) must be reworked to move its library to /usr/lib/libc5-compat. David

Re: another question

1998-04-25 Thread David Engel
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:54:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm copying this to David Engel, whom I consider to be our library guru. > David, am I right that this self-dependance can be ignored? Yes. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAI

Re: Debian Re-organization proposals (was: Re: so what?)

1998-06-03 Thread David Engel
call of leaders and the ratification of amendments. Developers should still be allowed to make proposals but the final decision making authority should rest with the leaders or their delegates. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E.

Re: dselect install times out screensaver

1995-10-01 Thread David Engel
one from a shell script without the need of setterm. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

ld.so (fwd)

1995-10-02 Thread David Engel
Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Hi Guys, This request was sent to me privately. What do y'all think? It doesn't really matter to me. The package was already named ldso when I took over maintenance. As f

Bug#1662: gnuplot won't run

1995-10-19 Thread David Engel
ibX11.so.6 (DLL Jump 6.0) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.6pl27) => /lib/libc.so.4.6.27 David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Bug#1721: system.fvwmrc references /usr/X386

1995-10-20 Thread David Engel
Package: fvwm Version: 1.24r-7 The path statements in /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc reference /usr/X386/*. They should use /usr/X11R6/*. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400

Re: ChangeLog format

1995-10-21 Thread David Engel
27;t adopted any particular format since I don't want to invest any time in it until we have a standard. My only requirement is that if it contains things like file sizes and checksums, then there should be some machine assistance provided for generating it. David -- David Engel

Bug#1742: /dev/tty has wrong permissions

1995-10-23 Thread David Engel
Package: base Version: 0.93.6-10 /dev/tty has mode 660. Shouldn't it be 666? I believe this is the cause of a problem someone reported about not being able to run top. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Ar

Bug#1757: Bash doesn't quote correctly

1995-10-24 Thread David Engel
.14.4. 1. Bugs fixed in Bash ... d. Fixes to the expansion code so that double quotes on the rhs of ${variableOPword} are handled better. This fix is badly needed by some scripts which I run routinely. David --- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PR

Bug#1776: zless missing

1995-10-28 Thread David Engel
maintainer should just add a zless script which does this and be done with it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Debian for Linux/{non-i386} / source packaging

1995-10-31 Thread David Engel
refer to go with unmodified, upstream source. Second, I really mean unmodified, i.e.. the Debianizing script (or whatever) must take care of unpacking into subdirectories, if necessary. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROT

Re: ELF conversion (was Re: 1.0 issues: FSSTND compliance & preparation for a.out abolishment)

1995-10-31 Thread David Engel
uld be named libc5 (note not libc) and have appropriate conflicts lines with older, pre-ELF versions of the libc package. Finally, so we don't repeat the same mistakes again, any new packages built using libc5 should explicitly list it in their dependencies. David -- David Engel

Bug#1378: weird ELF/a.out difference

1995-10-31 Thread David Engel
ef'ed code for __SVR4__I386_ABI_L1__. > The posix1_lim.h and posix2_lim.h files are identical for a.out and ELF. I've reassigned this bug to libc as the problem also exists there when run with "gcc -I/usr/include -I/usr/include" and that the elf-* packages will poss

Re: Debian for Linux/{non-i386} / source packaging

1995-10-31 Thread David Engel
> missing something, right? I don't think you're missing anything. AFAIK, RedHat already has a utility which already works very much like this. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ELF conversion (was Re: 1.0 issues: FSSTND compliance & preparation for a.out abolishment)

1995-11-01 Thread David Engel
d a directory right under /usr. Because $prefix/i486-linuxaout is the standard directory where the GNU development tools expect to find a.out files on an ELF system. I don't know if the FSSTND has even addressed this yet, but I'm confident they would sanction it, at least as a short t

Re: ELF conversion (was Re: 1.0 issues: FSSTND compliance & preparation for a.out abolishment)

1995-11-01 Thread David Engel
now so that we can make these types of transitions easier in the future? Surely we can do better than the xpkgR5/xpkgR6 mess we had a while back. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400

Re: ELF conversion

1995-11-01 Thread David Engel
age: ldso Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.7.10 Revision: 1 Conffiles: /etc/ld.so.conf bcdcb23c5d5fb460cee2ce315ef7bd32 Description: The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities. The dynamic link

Re: ELF conversion

1995-11-05 Thread David Engel
e > packages depend on practically nothing except the libc (and sometimes > each other). > > If I provide and document such a field all sorts of other packages > will start to use it, which will break people's attempts to do > bulk-upgrade. So. Why would we treat these misuses dif

Re: Poll: Python wishlist

1995-11-06 Thread David Engel
pace :(. My non-Debianized, ELF versions of Tcl/Tk are available on ftp.ods.com in /pub/linux. I've been waiting for official ELF versions of libc, etc. before Debianizing them. I suppose, if there is enough interest, I could go ahead and Debianize them now. David -- David Engel

Re: ELF libraries (was Re: Poll: Python wishlist)

1995-11-06 Thread David Engel
27;m probably not the best > person to coordinate this. I've never used ELF under Linux, and I'm > not sure what the relevant issues are. Someone like David Engel or > Ray Dassen, who have been working on ELF issues for the Project for > months, would be more qualified. As stated

Bug#1643: ld gets fatal eror when linking for profiling

1995-11-09 Thread David Engel
with -static for a.out. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

New a.out/ELF development packages

1995-11-11 Thread David Engel
programs. 2. Fully Debianize the libc5 packages. The current packages are still repackaged versions of H.J. Lu's binary packages. 3. Start converting other packages to ELF. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101

Re: New a.out/ELF development packages

1995-11-14 Thread David Engel
tomorrow. Has anyone besides Ray Dassen tried these out yet? Ray has sent me a couple of minor suggestions which I will incorporate in the next day or two. While I'm doing that, I'd like to fix any problems others may have found as well. David -- David EngelO

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-15 Thread David Engel
; with and "provide" the elf-* equivalents. These should also be moved into the distribution. I'll also be uploading an ELF gcc 2.7.1 package. I don't expect any problems, but this one should probably receive a little more testing before being moved. David -- David En

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-16 Thread David Engel
sr/include/ncurses to . (/usr/include) so as to not break old code. > > Also, I see that we no longer have /usr/include/curses.h, but do > have /usr/include/bsd/curses.h. I suspect that it's an oversight. H.J.? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [E

Re: aout-* packages

1995-11-17 Thread David Engel
; gcc, binutils, libc, libgdbm, libreadline. > As far as I can see, the following packages will have to go through this > transition: electric-fence, libdb (part of libc4, but not of libc5; I'll take > a look at this), libg++, libident, libncurses. > > David,

Re: aout-* packages

1995-11-17 Thread David Engel
be compiled in a.out format. The a.out development tools aren't completely going away. They just won't be the default. If you really want to compile 1.2.13 in ELF format, I suggest you politely request Linus to update it one last time. David -- David EngelOpt

Re: aout-* packages

1995-11-17 Thread David Engel
ood question. Do we really want to provide new, a.out versions of *all* development packages, even if they don't contain any shared libraries? Not doing so might be a good way to encourage all development to switch to ELF. David -- David EngelOpt

Re: aout-* packages

1995-11-17 Thread David Engel
b i486-linuxaout'. Actually, it's pretty easy, at least for us. Since we have completely separate a.out tools, all we need to do is put /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin before /usr/bin in our PATH and compile away. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc.

Re: ELF ncurses

1995-11-19 Thread David Engel
mitement to maintaining binary comptaibility. The major version number has already changed once. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ELF packages (fwd)

1995-11-19 Thread David Engel
> > Also, I see that we no longer have /usr/include/curses.h, but do > > > have /usr/include/bsd/curses.h. > > > > I suspect that it's an oversight. H.J.? > > It iis removed from libc 5.2.14. > > H.J. -- David EngelOptical Data Sys

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread David Engel
linux/packages/GCC, you might be able to find it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
ink about it, we should consider selectively relinking a few other programs such that other, non-essential shared libraries don't need to be in /lib (e.g. bash/readline). David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: bounds checking

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
uthor decided to quit maintaining it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Problems with elf gcc and man.

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
.so.2.5.2l.20' Is libbfd.so.2.5.2l.20 in /usr/lib? If not, try reinstalling the binutils package. I had it 'disappear' on me once. I think it is due to a strange interaction between dpkg and ldconfig but I haven't had time to look into it. David -- David Engel

Re: Missing X references

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
ith -L /usr/i486-linuxelf/lib until the X packages are converted to ELF. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: readline and bfd libraries?

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
kage, but where should the script-level manual pages go? IMO, they should go with the interpreter in the tcl74 package, but making them coexist with tcl75, etc. would be impratical. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 110

Bug#1918: ncurses-runtime replaces tput's

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
ackage. I can't remember whether I asked dpkg to --force-depends > or not. Who is the new maintainer of the tput package? Ian Murdock used to but he may have given it away. It would seem that ncurses should obsolete the tput package since it now contains clear, reset and tput. David --

Re: Missing X references

1995-11-28 Thread David Engel
kage and should be on ftp.debian.org in /debian/project/experimental/elf. The only affect it should have on your package is that yours should explicitly conflict with and provide 'elf-x11r6lib'. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade

1995-11-29 Thread David Engel
pace in > general ? Having a statically-linked version inside bash isn't going > to help save space in /. Not right now, but what about when new versions of readline, ncurses, bfd, etc. come along? Do we want two, three or more versions of these all in /lib? David -- David Engel

Re: readline and bfd libraries?

1995-11-29 Thread David Engel
d occurred to me as well. However, does anyone see a real advantage, to installing the doc package without the dev package or installing one version of the doc package and a different version of the dev package. If not, the documentation might as well be folded in with the

Bug#1927: no /usr/include/linux/errno.h

1995-11-29 Thread David Engel
ry reinstalling libc5-dev. The symlinks for /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are in the .deb file. I had my computer off while I was gone last week and when I turned it back on, my symlinks were mysteriously missing. Does anyone know what might have happened? David -- David Engel

Re: Debugging programs with debian elf?

1995-11-30 Thread David Engel
b to do this. The patches which supposedly allow this are available at susix.jura.uni-sb.de in /pub/linux/source/compile/gdb-4.15.dif but I haven't tried them yet. Updating gdb is on my list of things to do, but it's not a very high priority right now. David -- David Engel

Re: Responsibility for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
might be "best" (whatever that means) > to change the debian.rules so that we actually get the self-compiled & > tested compiler in our package. The easiest way to do this is simply to build with the old compiler, install the new compiler and then rebuild with the new compil

Re: Tcl/Tk source directories

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
ce. I believe it has support for specifying in the build script where the source directory is located. > I think the linux kernel sources are our best model to date. Again, I don't understand. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Siggy responsibe for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
tive > deleted). I'm hoping the current versions build more cleanly, but I haven't tried them yet. I hope to get to libc soon, but libg++ may still be a while unless someone else wants to try it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tcl/Tk source directories

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
usable by other distributions (Slackware uses them and RedHat may also, at least in part), this is very undesirable. Would anyone object, if I reverted back to the original names as distributed by Dr. Ousterhout? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Building ncurses...a couple of questions...

1995-12-07 Thread David Engel
; So far I have been unable to find a copy of the patch that lets you fall > back to another directory. However, support is already in there to allow I don't know that the patch even exists anymore. However, a quick and dirty hack is only a two line change in read_entry.c. David -- Davi

Re: Unidentified subject!

1995-12-07 Thread David Engel
quite obvious what's going on. The reason I called it q-n-d is because the old patch was more complete and allowed the second directory to be specified as an option to the configure script. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-07 Thread David Engel
at the interim version that I did. > examples and documentation (including man pages > > ncurese-terminals: > all of the terminals not in ncurses-runtime, installed in > /usr/lib/terminfo OK. David -- David EngelOptical Data System

Re: GCC/binutils shared library search changes?

1995-12-07 Thread David Engel
n.rules file. BTW, the generic, Linux X libs were built with -rpath. Please do not do this for Debian. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-07 Thread David Engel
, but still supported, versions if they have different package names from the new ones. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: j1-7-5

1995-12-07 Thread David Engel
d be told which files to do this with by putting a "libfiles" file in the DEBIAN directory. This would be more convenient and consistent (i.e. reliable) than having every developer doing it manually. > 2. does the right thing with regards to the .so link. > 3. is

Re: bumping the version number

1995-12-08 Thread David Engel
th a code name) until we are close to actually releasing. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-09 Thread David Engel
t with the virtual package tcl-dev. When tcl75-dev comes out, it will do the same thing. This has the advantage of only allowing one tcl*-dev package to be installed at a time without having to explicitly conflict with every other package. David -- David EngelOptical Data Sy

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread David Engel
ded, but there is no provision for deleting the files when the package is removed. Again, I'd like to hear Ian Jackson's thoughts on adding special installation support for shared libraries to dpkg. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread David Engel
7;s thoughts on > > adding special installation support for shared libraries to dpkg. > > For the moment I guess I'll re-rename them in the prerm. Ian Jackson, are you there? I'd *really* like to hear your opinions on this. David -- David EngelOptical

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread David Engel
e already did a good job of answering this. The only thing I'll add is that ldconfig manages any links needed by ld.so. For run-time packages, all you have to do is install the libfoo.so.X.Y.Z files and ldconfig will do the rest. David -- David EngelOptical Data Sy

Bug#2013: gdb can't find executables in current directory

1995-12-12 Thread David Engel
> Package: gdb > Version: 4.15.1-1 > > If I run "gdb file", gdb says "no such file or directory". If I run > "gdb `pwd`/file", it works. It works for me. What libc5 are you using? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc

Location of shared library links

1995-12-12 Thread David Engel
gt; ... > (/usr/lib/libc.a)basename.o > (/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2/libgcc.a)_udivdi3.o > (/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2/libgcc.a)_umoddi3.o > /usr/lib/crtend.o > /usr/lib/crtn.o > > It may be better we have the links libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.real.name in > th

Shared libraries mysteriously disappearing

1995-12-13 Thread David Engel
s and will be automatically cleaned up the next time ldconfig is run. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: More ncurses...

1995-12-14 Thread David Engel
kson's thoughts on adding special, installation support for shared libraries directly into dpkg. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: More ncurses...

1995-12-14 Thread David Engel
o.so link is in /lib, libfoo.a is in /usr/lib and someone invokes ld with '-L/usr/lib -lfoo', ld will find libfoo.a first and use it instead of libfoo.so. This is probably not what was desired. The simple solution is to put the libfoo.so link in the same directory with li

Re: Erick Branderhorst Saves the World...

1995-12-14 Thread David Engel
new control file field, such as 'Replaces' or 'Supercedes', that tells dpkg to automatically remove the old package when the new one is installed. Or is this capability already there and I just don't know about it yet? David -- David EngelOptical Data Sys

Re: X package shared library problem

1995-12-15 Thread David Engel
uggestions on how to correct the former problem. What I'm leaning towards is to have ldconfig continue to remove dangling libfoo.so.* links but not libfoo.so links. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X package shared library problem

1995-12-15 Thread David Engel
ting is probably > not a good idea. Agreed, but the problem is that it isn't always clear for which links ldconfig is responsible and for which ones it isn't. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Ro

Re: coming soon

1995-12-16 Thread David Engel
his. Adding alternative paths to the same directories will only add clutter and cause confusion. BTW, I just checked and Solaris uses the same directory structure we already have. Of course, I don't know if that's good or bad. :-) David -- David EngelOptical Data

*** Important Notice ***

1995-12-16 Thread David Engel
var/lib/dpkg/info. This will prevent the libraries from being renamed when you upgrade. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-16 Thread David Engel
> David Engel writes ("Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release"): > > [ and earlier: ] > > > > The runtime package installs the shared libraries as lib*.so.3.0.new > > > > and then renames them to lib*.so.3.0 in the postinst script. This is > > > > fi

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-18 Thread David Engel
-specific - it's just there to save disk space and > memory, and furthermore this is a critical package which we can't > leave broken. > > AFAIK only dpkg falls into category 3. Lots of things fall into > category 1, but they can do without special handling. > > Category 1 needs the link to be updated *with both libraries present*, > am I right ? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: More ncurses...

1995-12-18 Thread David Engel
the scripts for doing these moves in something that's > guaranteed to never depend on the library. In this case, perl is the > obvious answer. > > Am I missing something? Yes, other packages may be being operated on during the same dpkg run and they may need bash. David -- D

Re: New ftp method for dselect

1995-12-18 Thread David Engel
site in the `binary' directory: > > --[-].deb > > Note the two hyphens. I missed the first part of this thread. Sorry. What is the resoning for this drastic change? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1

Re: New ftp method for dselect

1995-12-18 Thread David Engel
file? It's needed by dselect anyway. Also, what about packages like ld.so where the file name doesn't match the package name (ldso)? What am I missing? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

1995-12-19 Thread David Engel
seems to me that changing the very few packages which don't already conform to such a naming scheme would be much less disruptive than renaming every package. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-19 Thread David Engel
ct allow a package to be upgraded or replced with another and then left in an unconfigured state? Basically, what I'm concerned with is the time between an old package's postrm script being called and any new package's postinst being called. David -- David Engel

Re: why doesn't binutils-2.6-1 provide a shared library?

1995-12-19 Thread David Engel
namic symbols in a shared library that can not be stripped. You'll have to ask the binutils developers why they did this. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Re: why doesn't binutils-2.6-1 provide a shared library?

1995-12-20 Thread David Engel
the binutils > >developers why they did this. > > Ick. Would that be of the GNU package or of the linux shared library > specs (gcc folks). The GNU folks. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

Updated gcc package

1995-12-21 Thread David Engel
2.deb 139c3c6fc8f137c86b4a24fe415a9ee3 gcc-2.7.2-2.tar.gz 2daf1b159a5754c4092b0792ecca5784 gcc-2.7.2-2.diff.gz abd797ac91b89a97cd1a0423dfeb7f00 gcc-2.7.2-2.deb -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234

Re: Lack of libtercap.so kills elf Accelerated X

1995-12-21 Thread David Engel
like to make a run-time only (i.e. no development support) package for it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081

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