Re: glibc-compat ???

[Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <masee@usa.net>]

>>>>> "Jose" == Jose Marin <jose@ma.hw.ac.uk> writes:

    > Hi all, I'm reposting this question because I didn't get any
    > answer recently.  Maybe this has been discussed before but I
    > haven't been able to dig it up from the mailing list archives or
    > dejanews.

    > I'm using several machines, some with potato, some with woody.
    > I need to install a free (as in gratis, not speech) F compiler,
    > which needs glibc2.0 and won't work with glibc2.1.  Other people
    > with Suse or RedHat have reported the same problem, and they
    > have fixed it installing "compatibility" packages containing
    > glibc2.0. To be exact, they mention installing the
    > compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1 rpm and adding a
    > -L/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib to the end of the compile line.

Maybe you could use alien and install the rpm?  I thing potato and
woody is totally commited to 2.1

Marshal

    > It seems we don't have such "compatibility" packages for Debian;
    > what am I missing?  Could one install slink's glibc2.0 in a
    > non-obstrusive way under potato or woody?

    > FWIW, the error messages are of this type:
    > /usr/local/lib/F/libf90.a(open.o): In function `__NAGf90_open':
    > open.o(.text+0xc77): undefined reference to `_fxstat'

    > TIA,

    > Jose


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