Re: required libraries for 2.3.x and RPMs

["Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC" <ted cypress com>]

Paul Newman pgen com wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm running RH6.0 on an i686.
> I want to install kernel 2.3.6 (with the USB code from 2.3.10) so I can use USB

Be careful with the newer 2.3.x kernels.

> menuconfig, I get make error 139 and then make error 2. I have upgraded kernels

Can you do 'make mrproper'
then 'make menuconfig' and send the error messages?

> The following are strange:
> 
> libc5 & libc 6. I am supposed to do `ls - /lib/libc*' to see what versions I
> have
> (they are supposed to be >v5.4.46 for libc5 and >2.0.7pre6 for libc6. I get the
> following output:
>      /lib/libc-2.1.1.so
>      /lib;/libc.so.6->libc-2.1.1.so

libc6 is glibc2. RedHat 6.0 is using glibc2.1
as shown with the libc-2.1.1.so file.
the 2.3.x kernels work with this.

> So which version do I have? not sure. Neither can I find which RHH6.0 RPMs do
> the necessary.

they are from glibc and glibc-devel (both version 2.1.1-6)

> Then the other funny one is NFS version which is supposed to be checked by using
> the `showmount' command. That yields `showmount -command not found' - there is
> no "NFS" rpm on the 6.0 CD

its from knfsd-clients-1.2.2-4 and is in /usr/sbin.
as a user this probably is not in your path.

> Also, checking for the Linux C++ library using `ls-l /usr/lib/libg++.so.*'
> yields `egcs 2.91.66' Fine, what version of C++ does that correspond to (I need
> >2.7.2.8).

egcs 2.91.66 is newer than 2.7.2.8
egcs 2.95 will be gcc-2.95 since egcs and gcc
are now officially merging.

> If I am wrong about the libraries not being up to date, then what is causing the
> failure to do a make menuconfig?
> 
> -there was a reference in the error message saying the failures are often caused
> by people having upgraded ncurses and having more than one header/pointer in
> /usr/include ncurses. I dont recall doing an upgrade of that RPM. How do I
> check.? not being a programmer, I'm not sure. Is it ncurses.h? Should I then
> delete it?
> 

you need ncurses.h for the menuconfig program.
it part of ncurses-devel-4.2-18

	-Thomas