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2 Nov 2024 15:27:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: dificulty getting super-patch running  
From: Loial Raven (Stuart MeerKat)
Date: 7 Jul 1999 22:27:50
Message: <37840E05.77434D46@yahoo.com>
I'm on a Debian linux, 2.2.3
uh... glibc2... hmm... i'm not all that good with linux yet... still
learning...
i did grab the source, but couldn't get them to compile... if you like, i
can explain more...

Ron Parker wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:51:15 -0700, Loial Raven (Stuart MeerKat) wrote:
> >Oh, and the linux version i can't get to work either, it's saying:
> >
> >/povray: error in loading shared libraries
> >: undefined symbol: __bzero
>
> The superpatch Linux binary distribution does assume that you have
> already correctly installed libpng.so and libz.so.  If you have not,
> you will probably get an error.  On the other hand, you'd get the
> same error with the official distribution, too.
>
> What version of Linux are you using?  Specifically, which distro and
> version number, which kernel version, and which C library?  The
> binaries on my website were built with OpenLinux 2.2 on glibc2.  I
> don't know what kernel I'm running offhand.  I did notice that
> either povray or x-povray is built wrong, due to stupidity on my part,
> so you may find that the other one works.  For now, the best fix for
> that problem is to download the source and build your own if you need
> the one that's broken (whichever one it is.)


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