fp5/Linux 2.6 -- anyone got it running?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:55:37 -0500):

> I've just ported a laptop from RH7.3 to SuSE 9.2 for a client, and for
> some reason, it seems that runmenu is the only binary that will run
> without immediately segfaulting.  I've straced, and there doesn't seem
> to be any specific thing that's breaking it (there are several
> sequential blocks that are structurally similar, and it breaks right
> after one finishes).
>
> I have a valid /etc/default/fppath, and I've check the permissions and
> run fixperms, and no luck.
>
> This system is running kernel 2.6.8-24(.11-default; ick); could it
> really be that 5.0.8 won't run there?

As I recall, there was a change to the Linux kernel or the libraries
along the way which broke compatibility with statically-linked
binaries.  (The problem, as I recall, was that the static libraries
called dynamic libraries, and they broke the compatibility.  This is
one of the problems that statically linking is supposed to avoid.)

The Linux version was changed, I believe at 5.0.09, to work around this.

In short, you are correct that 5.0.08 simply won't run there due to
non-backward-compatibility in the Linux distrib.

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