Re: Twin

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:08:30AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On debian 1.3.1 I used the windows emulator twin with some success after
> unpacking the tar.gz, and followed the installation instructions.  After
> upgrading to 2.0 I tried to do the same.  It would not link however.
> Complains about missing .so files like libtwin.so.  As far as I understand
> it libtwin.so should be the result of the compilation process.
> 
> Why would that work on Debian 1.3.1 and not 2.0?

Because Debian 2.0 uses libc6, and the last version of TWIN I tried didn't
compile with libc6.

Either try the altdev ebvironment, or apply the various patches that can be
found in the mailing list archieve. I removed all traces of twin from my
system, so you have to look yourself. However, I epxereinced it to be very
slow.

Marcus

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