Also there are Mandrake source rpms which should compile easily. The instructions to compile from a source rpm package are in the Maximum RPM book, which is available online. Serch for "Maximum RPM" on google.
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:41, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > Chris Wilkinson wrote: > >> > >> http://sclnz.com/libstdc++.so.5.0.3 > > > > Thanks, downloaded it and it works, > > There is a twist to this story. I now have... > > libstdc++.so.5.0.0 (already installed, from glibc_2.2.5) > libstdc++.so.5.0.3 (from glibc_2.3, grabbed from Rex, thanks dude) > > libstdc++.so.5 was a link to the earlier one, so I updated that > to point to the later one...that got me one step further into > Celestia (libstdc++ wanted updated version of libc.so.6). I'll > deal with that one later, but since updating the link to libstdc > some apps like xscreensaver modules will not work. I have had to > change the libstdc link to point back to the earlier library file > to get these apps going again (sigh!). It appears that different > apps call the same lib by name (libstdc++.so.5), yet the apps each > require particular versions of the same lib). If that is so, how do > I get Celestia running while still allowing the xscreensaver modules > (and other apps) to work? > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. > > > > >
