I am trying to upgrade Amanda site wide to 2.6.1, and I just ran into what may be a big deal. 2.6.1 apparently needs glib, now I did not think this was going to be too much of a problem. Just another download compile cycle thing. But on the first system I tried to build it from source on I ran into a bit of a problem, which led me to actually read the install instructions, imagine that :-)
Now I am worried as it unpacked, I noted a number of files in a directory that seemed to pertain to specific machine types. Now I see that the list of supported hardware/OS combinations is very limited. I need to make this work on HP-UX 10.20 on PA-RISC, and Solaris 5, and 8 on SPARC. It does not appear that these hardware/software combinations are supported for glibc. I don't understand what glibc is, clearly. I thought that it was the libc that is used on Linux distributions, but that must not be the case. What does it bring to the party that Amanda needs? And while I am asking, what does pkg-config bring to the part that configure does not? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
