On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:24, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > ok, i have to admit that i'm dreadfully curious: why Red Hat 4.2?
My boss would like to use this ancient program called X2C which is an Xbase compiler (something to do with converting xbase database program to C and make them executable, or something like that. I haven't gotten that far yet as running it. Just the assignment) but it's so old, the software doesn't compile on modern day versions of software and I cannot track down the problem to the kernel, gcc, glibc or binutils. The X2C developers and mailinglist weren't able to help out getting it to work. My boss said he used to use the program on RH-4.2 so that's what he sent me. I can install it on that and upgrade the system to more recent versions of software and see which one breaks it. That'll hopefully help in debugging it. Of course, Rh-4.2 is too old so I can't install it on any more my own computers. My oldest system I have here is a Celeron 533 and it won't install. RPM complains about architecture unknown. Hence the search for an old beast. -- Gerard Beekmans http://www.linuxfromscratch.org http://www.beekmansworld.com /* Linux Consultant --- OSDN / DevChannel * * Technical Writer --- CheapBytes */ /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */
