Re: Mozilla available for testing... (BAD lib naming conventions?)
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Bob McElrath wrote:
> I upgraded to libstdc++2.9.0 (from rpm's, of course), in case that was the
> problem. And made the appropriate symbolic link.
It still might be. I'll look into this further. I'm hoping for a Debian
box to test it as well. I've made some mods to binutils that might have
fixed a few things library-wise.
> This seems like a dangerous thing to do. All a person has to do is compile
> their own egcs, and then anything they compile with it will break because it
> can't find the right libs. Also, anything not *specifically* compiled for
> debian will break because it can't find the right libs. i.e. things
> distrubuted in .tar.gz formats...
> Also things compiled as .deb won't work on non-debian systems...
> This seems very dangerous...
Well, unfortunately, it wasn't my decision to do (maintainer of the egcs
package is the final say). I just rebuilt it. There are appropriate
links (ie. libstdc++-2.9, etc), but they just weren't used. I haven't
checked for the existance of libtool in the Mozilla code yet, but if so,
that may be to blame...(libtool is evil).
> It was huge, so I didn't attach it. Grab it at:
>
> ftp://draal.physics.wisc.edu/pub/mozilla/mozilla.deb.strace.log
Got it. Thank you very much :-)
C
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