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SubjectRe: Compile on RedHat 5.0
Hi Michael.

> linux-kernel and support@redhat.com added due to painful relavence.

Retained for my reply...

> Welcome to the club. Since RedHat switched to glibc and the
> associated headers, compiling all kinds of system related packages
> has turned into a bloody nightmare!!!!!

> I had to do some heavy patching or header files (including kernel
> header files) in order to get some things like
> smbmount/smbmnt/smbumount from the samba package to compile. The
> dirent structure in <linux/dirent.h> and the one in <direntry.h>
> are not even the same structure (the latter has an additional
> element added to the structure).

That sounds like you're still using the glibc that was supplied with
RedHat 5.0 itself? Upgrade to glibc 2.0.7-6 or later and most of those
problems vanish, at least in my experience. If you want the latest,
glibc-2.0.7-13 is on RedHat's site, and was installed on my system
about half an hour ago...

> I've also been working on Darren Reed's ipFilter package and that
> one is just beyond belief. I still haven't figured my way out of
> that "maze of twisty little passages all different". I find some
> header files in conflict (bunch of network headers) and also find
> that there are some things in each which the package depends on!
> AAAARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!

> Some of these things I've thrown my hands up in total disgust and
> gone back to a RedHat 4.2 system to compile.

There were SERIOUS problems with the headers as supplied with RH 5.0
itself but, as stated above, most have been cured by the various glibc
updates

> I would love to hear from SOMEONE who has a clean solution to this
> glibc moras! None of the update rpm's seem to be of any help here
> at all.

Hopefully the above helps. I've been using RH 5.0 since about a week
after it was released, and now regularly compile both kernels and
utilities under it with very few problems, and no recent problems
connected with any of the header files...

> Is RedHat 5.1 going to be any better? Worse??? Any thoughts from
> RedHat?

I don't work for RedHat, I'm just a highly satisfied customer...

> Most I have heard back from anyone else is the same talk of beating
> their heads against a stone wall with this mess.

Not from me - if I find a problem, I tend to get stuck in trying to
fix it...

Best wishes from Riley.


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