On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Sven Panne wrote:
> > Is this a binary dist or a working source snapshot?
>
> That´s a binary rpm, for the source rpm replace "i386" with "src".
Oh of course. I normally avoid RPMs like the plague which is why I didn't
catch on to that :)
> > Either way I'll be downloading it tonight when I get home from work...
>
> Remember, home /= work! ;-)
:)
Yea, here we're doing stuff in java. I'm a little too low on the totem
pole to suggest that we convert everything to ML or Haskell :)
> > Actually I've never had my compiler get confused with libc versions
> > yet. It could be that the libc6 bins are a very recent addition,
> > aquired actually just to get ghc 4.02 working :) [...]
>
> You´ll have problems with *every* older compiler which has its own
> libraries linked against libc5. Executables built with those compilers
> on a libc6 system will load libc5 *and* libc6 => loads of fun... :-P
hmmm... Well anyways I just ordered a slackware 4.0 CD which is
glibc2.0 based... should have it in a week or so I hope.
<hope>Then I won't have to worry...</hope>
> \begin{storiesOfOld}
> Aaaah, do you remember the golden times when every library was
> linked statically into the executable...?
> \epsfigure{RockingChair.eps}
> \end{storiesOfOld}
:)
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