Hi Steve, > Waldek has pointed out that it is possible to build on a system without a > working corepop by running the shell programs mklibpop and poplink_cmnd. > That is what I, and I imagine Steve Leach, did under kernel 5.8. Wouldn't > that be more reliable than having to depend on new systems keeping versions > of old libraries?
Yes, that is what I did. At the moment I believe we need a repository of well-documented corepop's for building from source - it's a lot easier to archive a single file than a collection. Having said that, the transition to a new kernel is going to be handled perfectly well by this route. Steve
