Re: Errors in compiling a source package
> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> > > Now there's a rather strong warning against downgrading ldso to version
> > > 1.8.x, which is the option I'm looking at here, since I can't install
> > > libc6 without gutting my system, making it near impossible to do what I
> > > wanted to do in the first place, that is to compile a source package.
> >
> > Well, I more-or-less understand why you wanted to upgrade ld.so, and
> > why the upgrade didn't do what you wanted to. But I still fail to
> > see why you want to downgrade ld.so. Really the hamm ld.so doesn't
> > conflict/depend on anything in bo/hamm, so you should be able to
> > use the hamm ld.so safely on a bo system. Really, unless you have
> > _very_ good reasons to downgrade your ld.so, *don't* do it!
> >
>
> Perhaps I didn't summarize well the response I got wrt my first post in
> this thread - with the ldso from hamm, I can't use the dpkg-shlibdeps from
Ah, right. I remember again (from past experience, that is). Yeah,
that's a good reason to want to downgrade.
> > > Why is this warning there?
>
> I think my mantra should be from now on "be patient". I foolishly tried a
> downgrade without waiting for a response. Ouch.
Cool! So you must be feeling *very* stupid now, right? I love it,
I love it! Someone who blows up his computer *knowingly*. You seem
to be very courageous! Actually, I could have used someone like you,
to test out that "safe" downgrade method I posted. (Could I interest
you to upgrade ld.so anyway, and then try my "safe" downgrade method?)
> Fortunately, I had a rescue boot disk and could fix things, but...
I am proud to say that when it hit me, I survived _without_ rebooting.
I was fortunate enough to have some nfs mounted directories on my server,
and I could go to another Debian machine, and build the static utilities
there, and then copy them on the NFS volumes.
I like courageous people!
(Oh, come to think of it, why do courageous people have bootdisks?)
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