I installed glibc2 a couple months ago, and it didn't make gnome any easier for me to compile. Actaully, gnome is do-able now. I have v0.26 installed on my libc5 S.u.S.E. 5.2 box and it works as well as can be expected for alpha software. Gnome requires you to posess some debugging skills, and c libraries won't help you if you can't edit a Makefile. Gnome is not even close to being useful for the average user yet; it is buggy and it's a bitch to compile. You may be better waiting for a future release, or, if you're determined, subscribe to the gnome mailing list and pick up some pointers on getting it to compile. v0.27 is out now, try compiling that, they supposedly fixed some things that made v0.26 harder to compile. Mark Wagnon wrote:
Hi all-
I just spent the last four hours downloading the sources and compiling glibc2. I followed the Glibc2-HOWTO to the letter, and if the "hello world" test program in the howto is a litmus test, I now have glibc2 installed on my system as a test library.
My primary goal was to get glibc2 installed so that I could compile gnome from the sources. I realize that SuSE 5.3 will ship with glibc (binary?) support, but I wanted to do things myself. Has anyone else done this? Anyone running gnome on their SuSE system? I'm going to head on over to the gnome site to see what I need to download. If anyone has any pointers. I'd be grateful.
Thanks,
Mark (with nothing better to do on a Saturday night)
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