After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before
an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the
CD's ), it appears that I need to be able to build the nVidia
kernel-patch with _the_same_version_ of gcc that was used to compile my
kernel. I'm using kernel-image-2.4.26, and the nVidia installer reports
this was built with
gcc-3.2.
OK, I go to install gcc-3.2. Including the Fortran, which I probably
don't really need, I get these complaints from dpkg:
"gcc-3.2 depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-9)"
"gcc-3.2 depends on binutils (>= 2.13.90.0.10)"
"g77-3.2 depends on libg2c0;"
"lib.....depends on libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.3-9)"
Argh, those are not with gcc-3.2. In fact, when I check the download
site (tonight) I find
libgcc1_3.0.4-7_i386.deb from gcc-3.0
libgcc1_3.3.4-13_hppa.deb -- and NO i386 package from gcc-3.3
libgcc1_3.3.5-2_hppa.deb -- and NO i386 package from gcc-3.3
libgcc1_3.4.2-2_i386.deb from gcc-3.4
libgcc1_4.0-0pre0_i386.deb from gcc-4.0
libg2c0_3.3.4-13_i386.deb from gcc-3.3
libg2c0_3.3.5-2_i386.deb from gcc-3.3
binutils_2.12.90.0.1-4_i386.deb - which I already have and is too low
binutils_2.15-4_i386.deb
It seems I am stuck dead in the water unless I can come up with a
working gcc-3.2
compiler to do the nVidia install.
The alternative looks like trying to recompile my kernel with I compiler
I can get.
I actually tried that with gcc-3.4 but got errored out immediately.
That is hardly my first choice, so I didn't pursue that further.
I have gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0. I had gcc-3.2 but had to remove it because
I couldn't get 3.3 or 3.4 to coexist. I don't really want to give away
space to five or six different generations of compiler. One, maybe two,
but not this fiasco.
Where can I go to get the missing libs?? [ backports is also no help in
this ].
Anyway, why is gcc-3.2 on the download site so incomplete?
I also couldn't get 3.3 up and flying for very similar reasons - key
libs missing - but what I need is 3.2!
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." --
The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy
software!