From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Subject: [LinuxPPC] Gary Thomas' libc sources Date: Tue, 6 Apr 99 22:39:22 -0400 From: Trevor Woerner To: "Users LinuxPPC" , "Developer LinuxPPC" , "Gary Thomas" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: dear friends, i was looking into compiling glibc for myself so i downloaded Gary Thomas' sources from ftp.linuxppc.com under the subdir /linuxppc/users/gdt/redhat/SRPMS/. i downloaded glibc-961212-1o.src.rpm. once on my system i did a: root# rpm -i <...glibc-961212...> and in my /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory (or something like that) i ended up with a whole pile of stuff that i'm not sure what to do with. i would appreciate some guidance. i ended up with the following: axp-extras-960810.tar.gz libc-961117-ldd.patch libc-961212-ewt.tar.gz libc-fsstnd-4.diff.gz libc-rev1i.patch libc-rev1j.patch libc-rev1k.patch libc-rev1l.patch libc-rev1m.patch libc.works-ppc.patch libc.zic.synlink.hack.diff.gz nsswitch.conf what the heck are all of these :-? so i unzipped and untarred the libc-961212-ewt.tar.gz (since it seemed, out of this bunch to be the most obvious, even though i'm not sure what an "ewt" is...) and it created a libc.works directory (or something like that) which had thousands of files: 90% of which were zero-length! could someone tell me what's going on? what do i need to compile libc? have the patches already been applied (if not now would i do that)? what is the "conf" file for? or the "symlink.hack" for? etc... etc... etc... thank you and best regards, trevor woerner ------------------------------------------------------------ Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to "Y2K". It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. -- Tony Poldrugovac [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]