ELF migration questions.
Has anyone come up with a reliable method of cutting-over to ELF
for development? I tried to do this based upon a discussion of the
topic some time back, between Ian Jackson& David Engel.
The steps were something like the following:
>From Ian:
> 1. Ensure that you have at least dpkg-1.0.7, or 1.0.10 if you want
> to be able to use `dpkg-split --split'.
Can someone explain what this does for you? (Just curious)
> 2. dpkg --install ld.so-<version>.deb
Okay, this seemed to go fine.
> 3. dpkg --remove libc
> OR use dselect to deselect `libc' (ie, select it for removal)
> If you use dpkg it will produce an error message about dependencies,
> but it will have noted that you wanted to remove libc.
Yes, dpkg didn't seem to allow me to do this. I typed the commandline
as specified, but don't remember exectly what the diagnostic was.
> 4. dpkg --install --auto-deconfigure libc4-<version>.deb
> This will replace libc with libc4. It may deconfigure (ie, break)
> your a.out compiler packages, if you have any installed.
>
> 5. dpkg --install libc5-<version>.deb
> This will install the ELF libc.
These steps seemed to go fine.
I then started to install from devel: gcc, libg++, binutils, aout-binutils,
aout-gcc, electric-fence, libc5-dev, libdb1, libdb1-dev, libgdbm1,
libgdbm1-dev, & perl. In base I installed miscutils, modules, mount, mbr,
& sysvinit. All of these seemed to install just fine.
In the *-dev packages, what does the Packages file mean when it specifies
the package as containing the "development files"? Should I need these,
or should I have only installed the package without "-dev"?
When I rebooted, I couldn't execute much of anything, any ideas on what
I did wrong? Is there anything I selected that I shouldn't have? Perhaps
my problem is that I don't know when to stop installing ;-).
I have reinstalled the 0.93R6 release (most everything), and am awaiting
suggestions.
Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Arthur / Huntington, NY
aca@panix.com, artal03@cai.com
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