Re: Mozilla available for testing... (BAD lib naming conventions?)

[Bob McElrath <mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Bob McElrath wrote:
> 
> > I get the following error message:
> > libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > do you have your libraries named funny?
> 
> Nope...that should be the latest from the latest egcs package.  If you
> haven't installed the libstdc++2.9 package from the egcs-2.91.58 debs, you
> probably don't have the new naming scheme.

I upgraded to libstdc++2.9.0 (from rpm's, of course), in case that was the
problem.  And made the appropriate symbolic link.

> Considering that you've converted the package, it's probably because our
> egcs is patched to fix the libs to the new naming convention (which will
> be part of the next release from my understanding).

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...

> > But after making an appropriate symbolic link, it just seg. faults.
> > 
> > LX164, kernel 2.1.126, 256M RAM, RedHat 5.1 (heavily modified -- I used
> > alien to convert your package).
> 
> Ah, ok.  Thanks for the test. :-)  If you get a chance, can you send me
> some output from strace on it?

It was huge, so I didn't attach it.  Grab it at:

ftp://draal.physics.wisc.edu/pub/mozilla/mozilla.deb.strace.log

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