Hey all,

I just want to report that I've been able to build the entire LBE on a
Debian server with a 2.6 kernel.

Ragnar Wisloff reported last week that he's had no problem on his server
with a 2.6 kernel, whereas many of us have had lots of trouble.

Well, it turns out that you need the 'gettext' package installed on your
server.  Otherwise, several packages, like bison, fileutils, sh-utils
and a few others detect that you don't have gettext, and I think they
use their own implementation of those functions, which fails miserably.

I also needed to install libncurses5-dev and zlib1g-dev.  Once I did
that, I was able to do a complete build of LBE, with no problems at all.

I figured this out with Ragnar's help.  he sent me the complete list of
packages installed on his system.  I compared that with the packages on
my system, and the first thing that jumped out at me was gettext.

I suspect that others having trouble on other non-Debian systems would
also be successful, if they make sure they have those packages
installed, before building.

I can't tell you how frustrating it was, not being able to build the
LBE.  Especially for me, the guy who wrote the darned thing!! :)

So, to summarize, I installed the following packages on my Deb-testing
box:

   gettext           0.14.1-6
   libncurses5-dev   5.4-4
   zlib1g-dev        1.2.2-3


Jim McQuillan
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