On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:34, William A. Yohman wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 13:34, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> > Somehow, misconfigured would not surprise me. Since installing Mandrake
> > 9.0, I have not been able to compile the majority of the programs I used
> > to use - and this one is no different. When I attempted to compile it, I
> > got an error message of 
> > "undefined reference to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" and 
> > "undefined reference to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" 
> > (I suppose that's because I have glibc-2.2.5 installed, rather than
> > 2.2.3.)
> > 
> > The hassles I've had with Mandrake make it very tempting to revert to
> > Red Hat. At least with Red Hat, I was able to compile and run useful
> > programs.
> > 
> > Weird thing is, every check I've made of my time configuration without
> > compiling this says my system is set for MST7MDT.
> > 
> > The joys of Mandrake....
> 
> I'm using a stock install (all defaults kept during installation,
> Mandrake 9.0 download) and had no problem compiling the included source
> code. The difference between the two different versions of glibc don't
> really have anything to do with this issue and I suspect you have failed
> to install some development packages.

Interesting. I installed off the CDs, did a stock installation, told it
to install everything except the foreign language packages. In fact, it
was because I was able to get the CDs for free that I switched from Red
Hat to Mandrake (My dialup connection could suck-start a B52, so
downloading all those Red Hat CD image files was not an option.)

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