From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Subject: Re: A couple of Linux 0.96c questions from finland Date: 14 Jul 1992 21:00:51 GMT
In article <1992Jul14.201358.17334@mits.mdata.fi>, kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul13.091014.21940@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
|> >>What should I do? I got GCC from
|> >>nic.funet.fi, and downloaded the files:
|> >>
|> >> 2.2.2db.tar.Z
|> >> 2.2.2misc.tar.Z
|> >> 2.2.2lib.tar.Z
|> >> binutils.tar.Z
|> >> 0.96bp1inc.tar.Z (if I remember this one's full name correctly)
|>
|> [some stuff deleted..]
|>
|> >I'm real wary of replacing shared libraries like that. I find it rather
|> >strange that the one distributed with your root disk was different than
|> >the one distributed with gcc.
|>
|> Yeah, as a matter of fact, I found a couple of more files called
|> 2.2.2fix*.tar.Z or something. They had some new libraries to
|> replace the old ones, and after installing those, everything seems
|> to work fine. Just a little bit confusing, since the README-files
|> I read mentioned nothing about any fixes... (They were replacements
|> for the link-time libraries, I still use the original rootdisk
|> run-time libraries.
|>
2.2.2fix*.tar.Z are for some very early gcc 2.2.2. You don't need them if you
saw them when you ftp gcc 2.2.2 on banjo.concert.net.
H.J.
-- Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.