Re[2]: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 3:06:02 PM
| Richard wrote about "need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade"
> bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
>> Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state?
> Hmm... OK for what? You said you needed David Engel's patch, you
> didn't say why :-)
> The effect of this patch on libc5-altdev will be to remove the
> "Conflicts: libc5-dev" line from its package description. This is
> part of the scheme worked out in bug report #15859 to allow libc5
> users to install libc6 while keeping a development environment that
> generates libc5 binaries. (I.e. they keep libc5-dev and all the other
> libc5-based -dev packages, and do not install libc6-dev. They also
> refrain from upgrading gcc. The hamm versions of gcc conflict with
> libc5-dev, so that's ok.)
> Is this the patch you meant? It is [based on] the one David Engel
> mailed to debian-private on Monday.
> I'm having some problems building it on my hamm system, by the way.
> I had to install altgcc and libc5-altdev because the build process
> referred to files in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1. I'm trying again now,
> so it will take a couple of hours more.
I have already successfully compiled(last night) libc5 on hamm. I don't,
however, have the patch in question. Maybe I could do it. It took about an
hour, if I remember correctly.
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