From: rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) Subject: Re: WHEN WILL SLS SUPPORTING XFREE86 1.3 BE OUT? Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 23:17:27 GMT
In <20q5ur$k4i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs) writes:
|"In a previous article, gthaker@atl.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker) says:
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|">Yes, this must be 'ln -sf'. I made the mistake and had a very difficult
|">time getting back. (I eventually just gave up and reinstalled SLS.
|">Even after I recovered from this mistake the programs I compiled would
|">core dump before reaching main(). IT does not seem easy to upgrade
|">to lib?.so.4.4 and gcc 2.4.5.)
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|"Sorry to disagree, but I found it an almost flawless and effortless upgrade.
|"Even compiling GCC myself was almost trivial, even if it did take 5 hours.
|"I would suggest that you re-read the docs, reinstall GCC and the libs.
|"Throwing out your whole system in order to reinstall your libs and compiler
|"is way overkill.
5 hours ? About 1 hour on my system. Now if I could only get rid of the
recurring #include_next limits.h problem...
-- Ronald van Loon | In theory, there is no difference (rvloon@cv.ruu.nl) | between theory and practice. 3DCV Group, Utrecht | The Netherlands | In practice however, there is.