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From: Tony Clark <tclark@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:47:38
Message-Id: 200307221747.40095.tclark@telia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc by Mike Wojcikiewicz
1 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15.21, Mike Wojcikiewicz wrote:
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5 > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 01:24, Jon Portnoy wrote:
6 > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:40AM +0200, Tony Clark wrote:
7 > > > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 04.35, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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11 > > > > i wouldnt suggest trying to downgrade ... i'm pretty sure it'll leave
12 > > > > your box usuable (well it'll leave glibc unusable and thats usually
13 > > > > your whole box :D)
14 > > > >
15 > > > > you can (if you dont mind shelling out $5) buy the binary versions
16 > > > > from transgaming ... those work with the newest glibc ...
17 > > > > - -mike
18 > > >
19 > > > Don't buy codeweavers wine stuff as it doesn't work with the latest
20 > > > version of glibc. I'll be downgrading glibc soon. Built glibc with
21 > > > nptl support as someone here said it would work that way but it doesn't
22 > > > here. There is also a bug in the glibc ebuild when you enable nptl,
23 > > > which I must report.
24 > > >
25 > > > tony
26 > >
27 > > Downgrading glibc is a bad idea... anything built against the newer
28 > > glibc version will break...
29 >
30 > Hmmm I'm running gcc 3.2.3 and glibc 2.3.2 and codeweavers crossover plugin
31 > works fine for me.. of course I had to tweak ~/.crossover/config to contain
32 > my latest kernel (2.4.22) in LDAssumeKernel, but after that everything
33 > worked flawlessly
34 Actually I was talking crossover office not plugin, haven't tried that. Guess
35 I should have been more specific.
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37 tony
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