On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Witold Filipczyk wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Neil wrote:
> > Greetings-
> > I have RH 7.2 and would like to install Arachne 1.66b.  I downloaded the
> > file to my home directory and unzipped it.  I did tar and then cd.  Then
> > I su to root and typed ./install.  I get the message:
> > "Welcome to installation....This version requires libc-2.1 based
> > system....(if you don't store in in /lib directory ......) Arachne was
> > not installed."
> > I checked to see if I had libc-2.1 and I see I have 2.2??, which I
> > thought would be fine.  Any advice?  Why don't you do a ./configure
> > before the install?
> 
> Hi!
> You know, ./install is OpenSource, so you can improve it.

<lots snipped>

  Or you could just go into install and change
this line to 2.2: 

if [ ! -e $LIBDIR/libc-2.1* ]
then
 echo "This version of Arachne requires libc-2.1 based system, sorry."
 msglib
 inst_abort
fi

  Give 'er a shot, and see if you get any further
error messages to fix.

 - Steve (always looking for the easy way.  ;-)

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