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In <1994May14.012234.10106@muffin.apana.org.au> cas@muffin.apana.org.au (Craig Sanders) writes:

>grahamc@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Graham Chapman) writes:

>    particular, libg.a was a sym link to libc.a - I guess things have
>    changed a lot since SLS 1.03 was released.  I don't think that this
>    was documented in the release notes...I had to figure it out myself.

Hmm. I didn't run into this one. My /usr/lib/libg.a is still a symlink to 
libc.a. I might dig into this a little...

>I installed all of the above except for tools 2.10 - what's in that,
>and where do you get it from?  It certainly wasn't in the archive I
>ftp-ed GCC 2.5.8 and libc 4.5.21 from because i did an "mget *" to leech
>everything.

Tools was written by Eric Youngdale and provides tools to generate 
DLL jumptable libraries. The current version is tools-2.11.
You can get it from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/GCC/src.
Archie almost certainly has a copy, but I found mine right here on
kralizec.


>I didn't have to rebuild anything - I just extracted the binaries and
>the include files in the right places, and everything worked.  Then I
>rebuilt the kernel with the new libraries - just so everything is up to
>date - and it worked fine.

I obviously got different packages. The gcc 2.5.8 and libc 4.5.21 both
contained source only and had to be built. The packages were both put
together by H.J Lu. Libc 4.5.21 was the one which had the line at the
start that you quoted to someone else the other day: something about
"if you miss ONE LINE of this document then this library may not work
for you". One of those lines said that tools 2.10 was needed.


Binutils, ld.so and libg++ were binary releases.

Quite possibly I upgraded the hard way, but I wanted to get packages which
were complete and which I could trust. I also wanted to see a bit about
how the packages and the compiler etc fit together. Having done it 
once, I might go for a binary install next time I upgrade, but where can
I get a full binary release which is complete and consistent etc?


Graham