Re: Compiles

[Stephen Pitts <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:47:32PM +0000, Nidge Jones wrote:
> 
> Now I run Debian 2.0, I fiond a lot of my old stuff won't compile !
> 
> What packages do i need to install from the oldlibs section to allow this.
> In particular to allow my kernel compile to work again, as at the moment it
> refuses to do just such.
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do too !
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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Whats wrong with the kernel compile? You shouldn't need anything from oldlibs to make that work. What version do you have? In a nutshell, you need the -dev version of any library that a program needs. 
Example:
To compile progra, foo, which needs libraries abc and xyz, you'd look for packages called abc-dev and xyz-dev. To compile the kernel, you need libc6-dev and libncurses4-dev (if you use make menuconfig). If you use make xconfig, then you need tcl8.0-dev and tk4.2-dev. 
Moral of the story: oldlibs is only for programs that you don't have the source for. Anything else, you should link against glibc2 based libraries.
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