Re: libc5 and libc6

[Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>]

> You almost certainly can compile them

OK.  libc6 was one of the suspects when trying to compile lyx.
ultimately I had to do a clean install (we hadn't found out about the
hardware problems yet, either).


> You shouldn't use programmes that use xforms anyway, as it's non-free
>   software. This means a lot less freedom to you (you cannot recompile
>   xforms for libc6, for example).

Currently, there's no real substitute for lyx.  Lyx will be moved away
from xforms, but it has more pressing matters.  There's a couple of
different packages under consideration.

rick


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