On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable > > system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 > > which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in > > converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, > > when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I > > received no response from RedHat technical support. > > > I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. > The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version > of libc. If you try to do "ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library" > I bet that you'll get dependence on libc6. Same thing happens to my > Motif: libXm.so.2.0 seems to depend on libc6 while both of them used > libc5 headers. > > The solution is to configure shared lib loader to use libc5 by default. > If somebody can tell me how to do it, I would be very gratefull.
No that wasn't the problem. ldd does show a dependency on libc5. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
