On 12 Jun 2003, Bill Baker wrote: >> You clearly state that you've upgraded to Red Hat [Linux] 9 here. >> There are no significant differences between XFree86 4.3.0-2 and >> 4.3.0-3 except a few minor driver bug fixes and other trivial >> stuff. I also have a Red Hat Linux 8.0 machine here with XFree86 >> 4.3.0 installed on it: > >Allow me to quote you what I also said later on in the same message: > >> I have a custom build of XFree86 (4.3.0-3) installed that I built >> from the source RPM under Red Hat 8.0 > >While upgrading to RH9, the XFree86 packages were not upgraded, since it >saw 4.3.0-3 as being newer than 4.3.0-2. Of course. 4.3.0-3 *IS* newer than 4.3.0-2. >> >I could try installing the 4.3.0-2 binaries from the RH9 CD to >> >see if that works. I just wondered if there was anything else I >> >could do, short of doing that. >> >> Red Hat Linux 9 binaries generally will not install on Red Hat >> Linux 8.0 without recompilation, and even then, some require spec >> file editing prior to rebuilding, and many of them have other >> dependancies on packages from Red Hat Linux 9 also. > >That's fine. I am running RH9. Make up your mind. >> You've said you were using RHL 9 in your original mail, and the C >> compiler you said you used, is the one from RHL 9 as well. Now >> you say you're using RHL 8.0, which only confuses things. Have >> you also manually rebuild the gcc rpms from RHL 9 and installed >> them on RHL 8.0? > >No, what I meant was that the XFree86 packages had been built and >installed on my system while I was running RH8. I have since upgraded >to RH9. Ok, so you're using an unofficial and unsupported custom build of XFree86. We've established that now. >> I'm not sure what exactly you're running, but I'm sure that the >> problem isn't something caused by Red Hat Linux provided >> packages. ;o) > >I never said it was. I did wonder if that might be the case, though, >since glibc 2.3 and wine don't play very well together, unless you build >wine from CVS. I always try to leave all possibilities open. Use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 for wine until the wine project fixes wine. >> Again, my suggestion is to back up your data, install Red Hat >> Linux 9, don't modify anything or install homebrew packages, and >> try to compile the program. It will work, trust me. ;o) And I >> mean you no disrespect. I'm just trying to show you that it does >> really work. > >I figured there could be something wrong with my setup. I went ahead >and installed XFree86 4.3.0-2, and tried compiling my program again. It >now works, and next I'll try compile other packages as well. Sounds like a confirmation of broken unofficial custom built packages causing system problems, as suspected. I tried to point that out as a cause, but you've only taken offense. Nonetheless, I'm glad I was able to help you solve the problem, and hope it works well for you. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
