Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc

[Tony Clark <tclark@telia.com>]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15.21, Mike Wojcikiewicz wrote:
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> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 01:24, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:40AM +0200, Tony Clark wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 04.35, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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> > > > i wouldnt suggest trying to downgrade ... i'm pretty sure it'll leave
> > > > your box usuable (well it'll leave glibc unusable and thats usually
> > > > your whole box :D)
> > > >
> > > > you can (if you dont mind shelling out $5) buy the binary versions
> > > > from transgaming ... those work with the newest glibc ...
> > > > - -mike
> > >
> > > Don't buy codeweavers wine stuff as it doesn't work with the latest
> > > version of glibc.  I'll be downgrading glibc soon. Built glibc with
> > > nptl support as someone here said it would work that way but it doesn't
> > > here. There is also a bug in the glibc ebuild when you enable nptl,
> > > which I must report.
> > >
> > > tony
> >
> > Downgrading glibc is a bad idea... anything built against the newer
> > glibc version will break...
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> Hmmm I'm running gcc 3.2.3 and glibc 2.3.2 and codeweavers crossover plugin
> works fine for me.. of course I had to tweak ~/.crossover/config to contain
> my latest kernel (2.4.22) in LDAssumeKernel, but after that everything
> worked flawlessly
Actually I was talking crossover office not plugin, haven't tried that.  Guess 
I should have been more specific.

tony

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