Re: tlug: Re:GIMP on Slackware (was GUI Linux reliability vs other OS)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Austin Kurahone wrote:

> Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> wrote:
> >On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Austin Kurahone wrote:
> >
> >> Well lets see,
> >> I use a combination of an outdated Compaq i486 (Prolinea 2200), 
> >> Linux(Slackware 3.3.4) for my web design work, and it is extreemely 
> >> stable.  The GUI (Xfree86) usually causes me no problems, and also 
> there 
> >> are all that is needed for web design available for  X (eg: GIMP 
> >> replaces photoshop, XEmacs replaces BBedit or and other HTML enabled 
> >> editor).
> >
> >I'm curious - what version of gimp are you using, and if it's a recent
> >one, how did you get it to build on a slackware (libc5) system?  Ii 
> think
> >0.99.something was the last one that would build on libc5... 
> 
> Well,
> 
> I use GIMP version 1.0.0, and glibc 5.4.44, and it built fine....  I 
> will admit that
> it took FOREVER (2 hours including GTK) to compile, but it built, and it 
> workes fine....

libc 5.4.44 != glibc

Maybe they patched it for libc5 systems, then.  Last time I tried building
an 0.99.x release on glibc it complained about a bunch of stuff... that
was on 5.4.38, though... 

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