Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> If your using debian or slackware or Red Hat mtrack will take some
> serious upgrading of your Linux to run.
Here's what I had to do:
System:
Slackware '96 based (ancient--I know!)
libc 5.4.44
X Free 3.3.0
Several weeks before mtrack was released by Jonathan I'd decided to
compile and install GTK+ 1.2.1. "Out of the box" it compiled fine
except that configure found no threading support and built GTK+ for no
thread support. Well, the app I was building 1.2.1 for required
threading, so I obtained the kernel pthread package and built this then
re-built GTK+. Every thing compiled fine except now the app wouldn't
run as X didn't support threading. So I picked up a binary only package
of X libs with threading support and all has been well ever since.
So, those with older libc 5 based systems can install GTK+ 1.2.x so long
as the kernel thread package and X has thread safe libraries installed.
Yes, it's too much of a chore, but isn't that what makes Linux fun?
73, de Nate >>
P.S. this upgrade wasn't as "serious" as upgrading from libc 5.3.12 to
5.4.44 or upgrading gcc to 2.7.2.3 and the C++ libraries, which paled in
comparison to upgrading Xfree from 3.1.2 to 3.3.0...
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