Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

[Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>]

On 99-11-30 Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Christian Kurz wrote:

> > >  > > Package: libg++272 (main)
> > >  > > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
> > >  > >   47212  [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
> > >  > 
> > >  > Here we need the help from the M68K-Team to find the bug and a solution
> > >  > for it.
> > 
> > > This is a more general issue. Currently even on i386 libg++272 does
> > > not build with a gcc272, which was built on potato. We would need a
> > > glibc-2.0 based build environment, I doubt this is worth the
> > > trouble. Currently there are only the following packages dependant on
> > > libg++272:
> > 
> > > netscape & communicator
> > 
> > > and optimizer (Does not compile with gcc-2.9x and egcs). The
> > > maintainer wanted to remove this package for the slink release. But
> > > it's still there ...
> > 
> > So, can we surely remove the package without breaking much stuff? What
> > does the maintainer say about this issue?

> Um, removing the package will make netscape not function.  Do we really want
> to do that(the netscape maintainer).

Does netscape really needs libc5?

shorty@jupiter% ls -l /opt/netscape/netscape
-r-xr-xr-x    1 shorty   users     6959236 Nov  3  1998 /opt/netscape/netscape*
shorty@jupiter% ldd /opt/netscape/netscape
        libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40018000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4001a000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40062000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4006b000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40081000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40093000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400a2000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400ae000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4014d000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40151000)
        libg++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2 (0x4022d000)
        libstdc++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x40265000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40299000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

This Version oft Netscape doesn't need a libc5 and is running very well here.
So why do we need the libc5 version?

Ciao
     Christian
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