libm

[Alistair Sutton]

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?

Al
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