Re: perl-5.6

2000-10-09 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Chris Garrigues wrote: I just tried to install the perl 5.6 from rawhide (I'm still ever so slowly downloading real redhat-7.0) and got the following errors: # rpm -Uvh perl-5.6.0-9.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: perl = 5.00503 is needed by

Re: perl-5.6

2000-10-09 Thread Chris Garrigues
From: Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:30:19 +0300 (EEST) Perl from 7.0 shows the same behaviour. This has been reported, and AFAIR, is harmless. Well, except that the script that I wrote to install RPMs everywhere doesn't use --nodeps, and I'm not at all

RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread Anne POSSOZ
To be able to run some (old) applications on redhat 7.0 (for axample matlab) the libc-5 support is still needed. I just added the RH 6.2 libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm packages on the PC. Question: apparently there is no incompatibility with these rpms so why are they not

kernel-2.2.16-24 and xforms-devel :(

2000-10-09 Thread Svante Signell
The kernel compile problem remains from kernel-2.2.16-21. With xforms-devel-0.88-15 from powertools installed the kernel build tries to use the _no source_ library xforms!! With another version of xforms (0.88.1-1) installed the unresolved references in libxforms.so disappear, but not the

Re: SGI STL version 3.3: Illegal Token?

2000-10-09 Thread kelch
Hi, I am trying to use the latest STL libraries from SGI (version 3.3) with RH 6.1 and gcc (g++). I'm getting illegal token errors in a couple of the headers, and it appears to be the '/' character used to indicate a continuing line in several #if defined

Re: RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Anne POSSOZ wrote: Question: apparently there is no incompatibility with these rpms so why are they not provided together with redhat 7? Because we can't keep compatibility with obsolete stuff forever. If we wanted to remain compatible with any obsolete stuff we ever

Re: RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Anne POSSOZ wrote: Question: apparently there is no incompatibility with these rpms so why are they not provided together with redhat 7? And it seems to fully solve the problem. In the 6.2 RELEASE-NOTES: Deprecated features and packages -- The

Re: RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: Hopefully this will also encourage Wolfram Research to make a newer version of Matlab available too.. Minor correction: Wolfram Research develops _Mathematica_ not Matlab. But the point still stands :-) -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of

Re: RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread John Summerfield
The support for old stuff has to be dropped at some point; usually extra I think this is more than a bit early. Not everyone wants to recompile programs that work perfectly well as they are. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: RH 7.0 and libc-5

2000-10-09 Thread Craig Kelley
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Anne POSSOZ wrote: To be able to run some (old) applications on redhat 7.0 (for axample matlab) the libc-5 support is still needed. I just added the RH 6.2 libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm packages on the