Edward J. Cooley enscribed thusly:
> We are trying to compile iBCS on RedHat 5.0 with SMP and keep getting
> reference and definition errors.
> Any help or direction would be appreciated.
My guess... Another glibc victim bits the dust.
<RANT>
Welcome to the club. Since RedHat switched to glibc and the associated
headers, compiling all kinds of system related packages has turned into a
bloody nightmare!!!!!
I had to do some heavy patching or header files (including kernel
header files) in order to get some things like smbmount/smbmnt/smbumount
from the samba package to compile. The dirent structure in <linux/dirent.h>
and the one in <direntry.h> are not even the same structure (the latter has
an additional element added to the structure).
I've also been working on Darren Reed's ipFilter package and that
one is just beyond belief. I still haven't figured my way out of that "maze
of twisty little passages all different". I find some header files in
conflict (bunch of network headers) and also find that there are some things
in each which the package depends on! AAAARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!
Some of these things I've thrown my hands up in total disgust and
gone back to a RedHat 4.2 system to compile.
I saw some patches sent up to linux-kernel a day or so ago to try
and deal with some of this by #ifdef'ing out certain defines when kernel
headers are included in user level programs. I'm not certain thats going
to help much when we are compiling kernel modules such as ipFilter or ibcs2.
I hope those changes, at least, do make it into the sources. Any help with
this swap is something!
I would love to hear from SOMEONE who has a clean solution to this
glibc moras! None of the update rpm's seem to be of any help here at all.
Is RedHat 5.1 going to be any better? Worse??? Any thoughts from RedHat?
Most I have heard back from anyone else is the same talk of beating their
heads against a stone wall with this mess.
</RANT>
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Regards,
Mike
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