Re: kernel 2.2 compilation problems

[Steve Ki-Won Lee <kiwon ugrad cs ualberta ca>]

Hi Ken and the members of this list,

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Ken Witherow wrote:

> >From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
> 
> - Kernel modules         2.1.121                 ; insmod -V
> - Gnu C                  2.7.2.3                 ; gcc --version
> - Binutils               2.8.1.0.23              ; ld -v
> - Linux libc5 C Library  5.4.46                  ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
> - Linux libc6 C Library  2.0.7pre6               ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*

I have a question about upgrading libc and glibc.  Currently, I have
libc-5.3.12-27 and glibc-2.0.7-13.  So, I could get a way with only
upgrading libc, correct?

As well, when I do an "ls -l /lib/libc.so.*", I only get this:
[root HAL /tmp]# ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Jan 11 17:44 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
libc-2.0.7.so*		

You can see that I'm missing the libc5 *.so file, so I did this:
[root HAL /tmp]# rpm -ql libc | grep libc.so
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12

and "/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib" is an entry in my /etc/ls.so.conf.  So, is
this good enough or should I copy the *.so.* files that libc provided over
to /lib ?  Also, I only have libc-5.3.12-27 installed and I looked for
5.4.46, but had no luck, can someone please point me to the correct URL?

> - Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.9                   ; ldd --version or ldd
> -v
> - Linux C++ Library      2.7.2.8                 ; ls -l
> /usr/lib/libg++.so.*
> - Procps                 1.2.9                   ; ps --version
> - Procinfo               15                      ; procinfo -v
> - Psmisc                 17                      ; pstree -V
> - Net-tools              1.49                    ; hostname -V
> - Loadlin                1.6a

Can someone please tell me what rpm Loadlin is part of and where I can get
it from?

> - Sh-utils               1.16                    ; basename --v
> - Autofs                 3.1.1                   ; automount --version
> - NFS                    2.2beta40               ; showmount --version
> - Bash                   1.14.7                  ; bash -version
> - Ncpfs                  2.2.0                   ; ncpmount -v
> - Pcmcia-cs              3.0.7                   ; cardmgr -V

Can someone please tell me what rpms Ncpfs, NFS and pcmcia-cs are part of
and where I can get it from?

> - PPP                    2.3.5                   ; pppd -v

If I don't use pppd at all, do I still need to install ppp in order for
2.2.1 to compile properly?

> - Util-linux             2.9g                    ; chsh -v
> 
> The only thing I would not suggest upgrading to is Util-linux 2.9g. Upon
> doing so I couldn't login to my system anymore since it's login isn't
> SysV compatable.

Yikes, that sounds scary.  I have util-linux-2.7-18, would that be good
enough then?  Thanks in advance.

Best,

Steve