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Anything special about upgrading to XFree86 3.1.2 from XFree86 3.1.1?  I have
the Linux binary distribution on CD-ROM and was just going to untar the files
over the old binaries.  Does anyone know if this will cause any problems?

Thanks

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This is exactly what I've been trying to do (XF86_Mach64 with ATI WinTurbo).
Untaring the files over the old binaries gave me some errors: existing
symbolic links couldn't get overwritten.

I have the Slackware 2.3.0 that came on InfoMagic's  Linux developper's
resource CDs from August 1995.
Here's a description of my most meaningfull failed attempt.

I'm new to Linux and Unix administration, so I went the drastic way:
formating my hard disk and loading disksets A, D, N, XAP, XV.

Installing as described in the INSTALL text file (as root) the following
files from CD #3 (from paths XFree86-3.1.2/common and XFree86-3.1.2/elf):
X312Ma64.tgz, X312bin.tgz, X312cfg.tgz, X312doc.tgz, X312fnt.tgz,
X312inc.tgz, X312lib.tgz, X312ctrb.tgz, X312f100.tgz, X312f75.tgz,
X312fscl.tgz, X312man.tgz, X312slib.tgz, X312alib.tgz, X312aslb.tgz.

I copied my previously saved XF86config file back in /etc.

Executing xf86config gave me "Unable to load shared library libc.so.5". So
did startx.

The only libs I had were: /lib/libc.so.4.6.27 and /lib/libc.so.4; and I
couldn't find any other useful libs on CDs neither.

Any clues appreciated.

-----------------------(MAC IC)
Etienne Ali

Finger for PGP public key.

yes.  XFree86 3.1.1 only supported "a.out" style binaries whereas 3.1.2 is
both available for "a.out" and "ELF".

Quote:> I have the Slackware 2.3.0 that came on InfoMagic's  Linux developper's
> resource CDs from August 1995.

Slackware 2.3 is still "a.out" based (3.0 is the first "ELF" slackware release)
so you should have got the XFree86-3.1.2/a.out/* files  instead of elf/*

Quote:> Executing xf86config gave me "Unable to load shared library libc.so.5". So
> did startx.

that's the ELF shared libc.

Harald
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