Re: Potato compiling environment on otherwise slink system
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 04:14:57PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 09:23:03AM -0400 , Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > I run Slink at work and at home, but decided to install potato's
> > gcc and g++ on my home box to recompile the potato packages that
> and libc6_2.1. Only compiling with new gcc won't have desired effect.
> > I maintain (keeping work box on slink for stability).
> >
> > Since my bandwidth is at work, I doing the following to download
> > what I need (and then I'll sneaker-net everything home on a Zip):
> >
> > # apt-get -d -u install gcc g++
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> > libfltk-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev cpp libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libc6-dev
> > libfltk1 libc6 mesag3
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > libstdc++2.9-dev timezone
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libfltk1 mesag3
> > The following packages will be upgraded
> > libfltk-dev g++ cpp gcc libc6-dev libc6
> > 6 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 7524kb of archives. After unpacking 7823kb will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> >
> >
> > Anything wrong with this? Or must I upgrade _everything_ to
> No. More or less, yes. The reason for recompiling is, that packages depend
> on glibc-2.1 (libc6 (>=2.1)) - so you must install those libraries. The
> compiler alone won't help. Not mentioning, that gcc in potato in linked with
> libc-2.1.
Alternatively, you could install a chrooted potatyo environment, just to
compile your stuff, and not touch your actual slink stuff.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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