Re: libc6 and kernel 2.2.18pre21????

[Joost van der Lugt <jvdl@sirius.com>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:02:51AM +0000, Joost van der Lugt wrote:
> 
> > Mmm, actually, I had the same problem needed to run gimp 1.2 and could
> > not get it to compile on glibc2.1.
> 
> really? i just compiled the unstable gimp 1.2 packages on my potato
> box and didn't have any problems.  though i also compiled some of the
> gnome libraries from woody as well.  i am still running libc6 2.1.3-18
> 
> i did have to make a few tweaks to the gimp package to make it build,
> mostly disabling the perl packages i think. since those depend on perl
> 5.6 which i don't even dare attempt.  (upgrading perl is worse then
> libc)

Aah, well it did in fact complain about, I believe, gtk not being
available in a high enough version, so I just upgraded everything:)
Guess I did not have too.

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Cheers,

Joost van der Lugt