Here's a little warning for anyone wishing to try Mandrake 8.0:- EVERY source I've compiled has failed. Sometimes rpms work, sometimes they don't (even though they are MDK rpm's).
I thought I was just being inept(fairly likey really), but why EVERY source? I looked over various BBS's and realised that I was not the only one... a LOT of people were having this problem. Seems that MDK, in an effort to be cutting edge, has sacrificed reliability and used a less stable version of gcc. grrr.
Ref for solution: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?topic=861&forum=5 Ricardo
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-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Ricardo Campos Sent: 24 September 2001 10:27 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] MDK 8.0 probs
Here's a little warning for anyone wishing to try Mandrake 8.0:- EVERY source I've compiled has failed. Sometimes rpms work, sometimes they don't (even though they are MDK rpm's).
I thought I was just being inept(fairly likey really), but why EVERY source? I looked over various BBS's and realised that I was not the only one... a LOT of people were having this problem. Seems that MDK, in an effort to be cutting edge, has sacrificed reliability and used a less stable version of gcc. grrr.
Ref for solution: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?topic=861&forum=5 Ricardo
I have had all sorts of trouble compiling under MDK 8.0, we did however successfully get a couple of things to compile at the last ALUG meet at Syleham on my box, but only after renaming some of the development libraries (well symlinking with the correct name anyway).
Hi Ricardo
Mandrake distros are in effect a re-badged RedHat distro - If RH have a problem, so will Mandrake. I too have been over the bleeding edge with gcc-2.96 (dare not play with gcc-3.0 yet). To be sure of a stable compile, use kgcc instead. It is either found in the kgcc or compat-egcs package. Once it is installed, either modify your make files or replace gcc with a symlink to kgcc. You may also need to do the same thing with c++ and compat-egcs++.
One more note - The kernel headers are also installed directly under /usr/include/linux so if you try to compile a different kernel, you may hit problems.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 24 September 2001 11:26 am, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Here's a little warning for anyone wishing to try Mandrake 8.0:- EVERY source I've compiled has failed. Sometimes rpms work, sometimes they don't (even though they are MDK rpm's).
I thought I was just being inept(fairly likey really), but why EVERY source? I looked over various BBS's and realised that I was not the only one... a LOT of people were having this problem. Seems that MDK, in an effort to be cutting edge, has sacrificed reliability and used a less stable version of gcc. grrr.
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