> I was confused about libs. Now I think I understand. For instance, if I > use > gcc, I must use libc5 or libc6 depending upon whether gcc was compiled using > libc5 or libc6 respectively. Is this correct?
Well, it's correct in the sence that it is happens to be true for most of the Debian pre-compiled binaries of gcc. Basically, gcc-2.7.2.2 is by default setup to create libc6 binaries. But it's easy to change tehdefaults, and altgcc (Iguess that's a libc6 binary, but, I'm not sure), creates libc5 binaries. You do need to have a gcc that has the bugfix for libc6 (gcc-2.7.2.1 is too old for libc6). > Also does the kernel use libs or not use them or is it completely self > sufficient? The kernel is about the only thing on your hardisk that does not use libs. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .