Subject: Re: installation on slackware
From: Albert Wagner (alwagner@tcac.net)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 18:44:27 CST
Hi, Diego. You are right about maybe being unfair. But I was and am
frustrated. It was only after downloading faulty tarballs that I lost
my patience. In the *nix world if you can't even get tarballs, then you
are dead in the water.
Diego Sueiro wrote:
>
> --- Albert Wagner <alwagner@tcac.net> wrote:
> > Albert Wagner wrote:
> [ snippage ]
> > > > $ abiword
> > > > /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while loading shared
> > libraries:
> > > > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared
> > object file: No such file
> > > > or directory ^
> > > >
> [ more snippage ]
> > for prime time. I think you people should try to
> > finish basic
> > functionality on a single platform before you waste
> > time trying to port
> > to every OS and every language. bye.
> >
>
> I don't wanna turn my first post to this forum into a
> flame, but I think you are a bit unfair with these
> guys. The error described above just means that
> whoever packed the binaries had a different version of
> glibc than you. That doesn't mean Abiword cannot work
> with the older version ( AFAIK ). Maybe you might
> download source, ./configure; make; su; make install;
> and even package the result and upload it to help
> other Slackware 7.1 users.
>
> If the version happend to be older and yours were
> backward compatible, it might be fixed with a link (
> ln -s lib_in_bin lib_in_your_machine ) but odds
> are that won't help you in this case. Regretably,
> this is the Linux version of DLL Hell, but I think
> Abi developers are not to blame.
>
> diego
>
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