[Sussex] Mozilla & glibc

[Gavin Stevens]

Steve,
Many thanks for your help. I had the horrible realisation about 5 minutes 
after posting this that I had missed some important point about glibc 
(There was me glibly referring to it like it was something I could just 
find & add). So egg on face for me there (I never shy away from being wrong 
& feeling a bit daft - it's a good way of learning & remembering).

As I write this on late Monday night, I haven't done anything rash or 
stupid. I will try installing libc6-dev & see if it helps.

However, I should finally have a replacement set of Woody CDs from 
CheepLinux.com tomorrow or Wed. & I can then upgrade.

One week on & I am very pleased that I took the decision to dump Windows in 
favour of Debian.
So until Woody arrives, life with the spud ain't bad at all.
Thanks again,
Gavin.

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:56:34 +0100, Steve Dobson 
<steve.dobson at krasnegar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Gavin
>
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:54:55PM +0100, Gavin Stevens wrote:
>> I decompressed the Mozilla -sea.tar.gz & found the readme. It looks fine 
>> &
>
>> in fact reveals an installer waiting to do its thing
> (./mozilla-installer).
>> All I need to find is glibc 2.2.4 or higher, which Mozilla requires.
>
> ! ! ! ! ! Danger Will Robinson Danger ! ! ! ! !
>
> The glibc package is the GNU C library.  Almost all C programs are 
> compiled
> against libc (the only notable exception is the kernel itself).  If you
> recompile and install a newer version of libC you _will_ end up breaking 
> a lot of programs.
>
> Debian woody (stable) looks to be based on glibc 2.2.5 (there is a 
> security
> patch against glibc-doc-2.2.5-11.5).  I don't have a woody machine 
> anymore
> so I can't check for you).
>
> However, I think that all you are missing is the development bits for 
> your
> version of glibc.  When a library is packaged under Debian it is broken 
> up
> into at least two bits:
>
> 1). The shared library that programs compiled against need, and
> 2). The developers bits that are only needed when compiling.
>
> Install the package "libc6-dev" which will install the developers bits
> you need and then try re-compiling mozilla.
>
> Steve
>
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