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Re: Compiles



Stephen Pitts Writes..

> Whats wrong with the kernel compile? You shouldn't need anything from 
> oldlibs to make that work. What version do you have?

Version of what !

> In a nutshell, you need the -dev version of any library that a program needs. 
> Example:
> To compile the kernel, you need libc6-dev

Yup - installed

> and libncurses4-dev (if you use make menuconfig).

Well I don't have a package actually called this. But I do have these
installed??...

ncurses-base (1.9.9g-8.8)
ncurses-bin  (1.9.9g-8.8)
ncurses3.4   (1.9.9g-8.8)
ncurses-term (1.9.9g-8.8)
ncurses3.4-dev (1.9.9g-8.8)

> 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.

OK

-- 
Nidge Jones


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