On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, David Lawrence Ramsey wrote:
> The glibc libraries on RedHat 7.0 are unstable, too. (Blackbox isn't the
> only thing that won't compile with them in an unmodified state; XMMS 1.2.3
> won't either according to its website.) I'd suggest that you reinstall
> glibc 2.1.2 (or get 2.1.3, since it's the latest stable version), but the
> files for it are huge, and I don't know whether it might break your system,
> since it is a "downgrade" of sorts.
The problem with blackbox is with the new c++ spec, which is a lot more
stringent than the one in older versions of gcc. I believe the problem is
rooted in how blackbox uses friends for nested classes. The blackbox rpms
at http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~grossman/blackbox/ should work fine.
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