Ok, I've had some time to try and get some libc6 stuff done I've been using stock linux-2.1.51 (which fixes the Sun4 slowdowns *and* has the nice side-effect of allowing me to drive my IPC serial port at 38k4 reliably).
I've stripped back my system to the bare essentials, and then added everything I could find on ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp Now, progress report; I'm trying to recompile mount, as the original binary I was using broke as a result of the kernel upgrade; however, compilation chokes *real* early on with a whole bunch of errors about redefinitions; <sys/socket.h> includes <bits/socket.h>, which defines PF_*; however, these are *also* defined in <linux/socket.h>... Similar stories apply to <sys/mount.h>, <bits/mount.h>, and <linux/fs.h>... Badly, badly broken by the looks of things; as a last ditch effort I moved /usr/include elsewhere and reinstalled libc6-dev; still much the same errors. Unfortunately I don't have an intel libc6 machine to compare against... suggestions anyone? An initial attempt at recompiling dpkg also failed dismally, with much the same problem. netbase-2.17/ also fails, but the errors are due more to storage size changes than anything else... I wish I had something positive to report; if there's detail I can provide which will help get past this hurdle, I'll do my best; for now, I think I have to just perservere with libc5, as it's the only working environment I have for sparc. Cheerio... -- Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) turn around, look at what you see... ... in her face, the mirror of your dreams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .