Re: Upgrading AS, libc5 okay?
David A. Walker davewalker@zebra.net
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:26:11 -0600
David Mihm recently proclaimed --
> glibc2 is evil, just like gtk 1.1.x :) It's a sad day in the
>Linux community when applications require alpha/beta or extremely new
>libraries or toolkits (like those above). Making applications only work
>when compiled with things like egcs or pgcc is also just as evil. It's a
>sad, sad day. :(
></rant></soapbox>
I don't know that I agree that glibc2 is _EVIL_.
I do know that I'm increasingly finding it difficult to manage the different
releases of the _many_ libraries required to support a relatively minor
number of packages.
Gtk, glib, imlib, glibc, libc5, and on and on and on. I recently spent a few
hours retrieving the _latest_ Gnome stuff. After the "./configure, make,
make install" dust cleared, I found that not only did the Gimp no longer
work, but neither did Electric Eyes or xv.
I'm _all_ in favor of choice, folks, but does the term "dll-hell" mean
anything out there? Because I'm seeing its twin on my Linux boxes now.
> Thankfully Afterstep does not require any of these ridiculus hoops
>for you to jump through.
Unless you want to use ascp.
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Ditto. Sorry for the rant.
Dave Walker
davewalker@zebra.net
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