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On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Per Birkeby wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I have been using Linux for about a year. Last week I installed my first
> version of Slackware (4.0) and I had some problems you might want to
> know about.
>
> 1. The X-libs is not compiled with safe threads. This is required by
> many gtk++ based applications, gnome beeing one of them. And since gtk++
> is within the distribution it would be a good idea to fix this so full
> support of the excellent gtk++ package can be utilised.
We get our X libs from XFree86 in binary form, since there is an official
maintainer for those. When the next Slackware is released, it will be
based on glibc2 and will be thread safe throughout. Meanwhile, I haven't
run into any problems. Gnome compiled and runs on Slackware 4.0 -- it's
included in /contrib. In what way doesn't it work?
> 2. The Python is not compiled with the _tkinst module. This makes it
> impossible to use Python programs which has a Tcl/Tk frontend, for
> example fetchmailconfig. Maybe other modules is lacking too.
This was intentional. I didn't want to require Tcl/Tk be installed in
order to use python. But, I don't use Python much myself. If it's being
mostly used with Tcl/Tk stuff and is mostly useless without it, I should
probably make that change. Is it? How much stuff is there besides
fetchmailconfig?
> 3. Staroffice5.1 segfaults. It seems to be a problem related to libc6.
> When checking for ld-linux.so.2 and libc-2.*.so I found them in /lib.
> But SO won't install. If you could help me out on this one I would
> appreiciate it.
I don't know what libraries they linked SO against, but I do know they
aren't part of any standard release of glibc2. I think until glibc2 is
the native library system on Slackware that a lot of the commercial
software linked on other Linux systems (probably Red Hat, with a heap of
patches to the libraries making them incompatible with the rest of the
world) can't be expected to work. Although, if you copy all the glibc2
libraries from Red Hat's /lib into your /lib, and you make a
/usr/redhat-compat/lib and put their X11 libs in it and add that to your
/etc/ld.so.conf, then I'll bet it would run.
Take care,
Pat
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