libm

[Chuck Robey]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Alistair Sutton wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:25:15 -0500 (EST), Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
> > I'm still trying to build gnome-2.10 ... it's broken right now in building
> > audio/arts.  The current error is one that's becoming depressingly
> > familiar: moc died, it's missing a "libm.so.2".  In the past, for all
> > these kind of errors, I would track down the executable that needed the
> > old libm, but I am wondering, maybe it wouldn't be all that horrible a
> > thing, to fake it out?
> >
> > Would it work for me, do you think, to have a softlink, from libc to libm?
> > Woud it hurt anything? (As long as I didn't try to propagate anything that
> > wanted to use libm!)  Would it actually work, solve that dependency
> > problem?
> >
> > Or am I actually, for some reason, really better served by tracking down
> > the old software and relink it?  That's a heck of a lot of extra work, you
> > understand, right?
>
> How are you trying to build gnome 2.10?
>
> Are you installing it from scratch or are you upgrading from a
> previous release using gnome_upgrade.sh?

gnome_upgrade, I have the script.  I was just scouting out the lazy man's
way of things, trying to see if I could avoid about 3 tons of extra
recompiling, that's all.  The method I'm suggesting seems to work, I'm
wondering, if I do this, am I getting ready to cut my throat somehow, or
is it a fairly OK idea?

>
> Al
>

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