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