Ethereal-users: RE: [ethereal-users] Problems with Ethereal.
> I now infer from "libc.so.6 (glibc)" that you're running
> Linux, and that
> from "downloaded the .tar.gz binaries" and "which I have yet to get
> installed" that you're probably running a pre-glibc version of
> Slackware.
Yes. It came with kernel v2.0.36, if I recall correctly. I have been doing
a lot of compiling and upgrading lately. <grin>
> The Package Central entry for Ethereal doesn't say for which
> version of
> Slackware the package was built; I have the impression that glibc is a
> relatively recent addition to Slackware, so I'm a bit
> surprised that the
> package would be built with glibc.
If Slackware 6.0 is the latest (as you mention below), I probably just have
a fairly old version.
> > I'm going to struggle with that part. I got it all
> compiled once, but then
> > scrapped it because there were warnings on the glibc HOWTO
> page suggesting
> > that "you don't want glibc-2.1.x as your main library." Hmmm...
>
> I have the impression that the major commercial
> distributions, at least,
> are using 2.1[.x], of some flavor, so perhaps the HOWTO is
> either out of
> date or excessively conservative. (Heck, the glibc HOWTO I see on
> "www.linuxdoc.org" has a date of 22 June 1998, and says that
> 2.1 is "due
> out in the near future". Perhaps, given that glibc is used
> by, I think,
> most of the major distributions, the HOWTO for it is no longer
> considered important.)
On that note, I think I'm just going to install glibc-2.1.3 (with the
add-ons) with --prefix=/usr and be done with it. If it hoses, it hoses.
> Perhaps the version of Slackware (or whatever other Linux distribution
> is on your machine, if it's not Slackware) you have, being
> libc5-based,
> doesn't have sufficiently up-to-date header files, and thus doesn't
> define INT_MAX, causing the compile problem with the source
> distribution.
Well, I downloaded the latest libc5 (5.4.46 I think? I'm running Wintendo
at the moment...), so they may all be broken. Hopefully, libc6 will fix
this problem.
> > But at least I know why Ethereal (and a couple other
> things) won't run even
> > when the binaries were downloaded. <whacks forehead> Grr...
>
> If you are running an older version of Slackware, you might want to
> consider upgrading to Slackware 6.0, to get a more modern environment.
Nah. Upgrading the whole distro is no fun. I'll just get the new stuff I
want. Every time I've wiped the drive and upgraded the whole thing I get
all kinds of stuff I didn't want and I have to reconfigure everything and
it's just a mess. I can get glibc going in a few hours (takes a while to
compile on here) and see what's still broken after that.
Thanks for the help!
--J
