Re: libc compatibility in Debian 2.0

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Subject: Re: libc compatibility in Debian 2.0
From: Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
Date: 14 Jan 1998 10:19:58 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 87yb0j2z0h.fsf@haitech.internet-treff.de>
In-reply-to: "Martin Jackson"'s message of "Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:45:05 -0600"
References: <[🔎] 003301bd20af$91631f80$77ef09ce@martinja>

"Martin Jackson" <mjackson@deskmedia.com> writes:

> Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications "out of the box?"  I am
> curious because Red Hat decided not to support this...

Yes.

You will need the -altdev packages for libc5 compiling. Then you prepend
"/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin" to the path and gcc, make etc. will use the
altdev packages and link with libc5.

Ciao,
	Martin

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