Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:58:57 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199903181214.XAA32237@zipper.zip.com.au>, CaT writes: +----- | Harald Koenig wrote the following: | > > > pardon me, but is 2.1 released at all ? | > > Yes. | > glibc-2.1 has been (temporarily) removed, until some | > political issues are worked out. | | Yeah. I'm kinda suprised about that not being resolved yet. Basically | you had to have been lucky. Either you got it before it was withdrawn, | you managed to find it in some dark corner of the net or you managed | to get it off a friend who got it. Other then that you're SOL. +--->8
It's on one of Cygnus's machines still; I forget which.
The "political" issue is that glibc2.1 can't be built with gcc 2.8.1; presumably it needs to be rewritten to be compatible with gcc 2.8.1 instead of requiring egcs.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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