Re: Potato compiling environment on otherwise slink system
I wrote:
> I run Slink at work and at home, but decided to install potato's
> gcc and g++ on my home box to recompile the potato packages that
> I maintain
>
> # apt-get -d -u install gcc g++
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libfltk-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev cpp libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libc6-dev
> libfltk1 libc6 mesag3
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libstdc++2.9-dev timezone
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libfltk1 mesag3
> The following packages will be upgraded
> libfltk-dev g++ cpp gcc libc6-dev libc6
> 6 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
> Need to get 7524kb of archives. After unpacking 7823kb will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
>
> Anything wrong with this? Or must I upgrade _everything_ to
> potato.
Petr Cech wrote:
> No.
No? there's nothing wrong with this?
> More or less, yes.
But yes? I must upgrade _everything_ to potato?
I'm sorry, I'm confused.
> The reason for recompiling is, that packages depend
> on glibc-2.1 (libc6 (>=2.1)) - so you must install those libraries. The
> compiler alone won't help. Not mentioning, that gcc in potato in linked with
> libc-2.1.
I understand this. That's why I'm using apt--get to catch all
the dependencies, including the new glibc-2.1. I'm just worried
that this could leave my system in an unusable state.
> > This will upgrade libc6. Will the rest of the system (slink)
> > still function correctly?
>
> again - almost all. The problem is with shared libraries. When I upgraded
> to glibc-2.1 one machine, I forgot about libreadlineg2 - bash worked almost
> corrently, that is, when you hit <TAB> it core-dumped.
So I might have a few problems, some of which are already known?
Has anyone done this and taken notes?
Thanks,
Peter
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