Re: Compiles
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:02:38AM +0000, Nidge Jones wrote:
>
> 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 !
>
The kernel. Sorry, I was unclear.
> > 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)
>
Looks good to me, you have ncurses3.4 and the -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.
>
> OK
>
> --
> Nidge Jones
Perhaps you could post the error messages?
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Stephen Pitts
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