Re: NewbiQ re: Support for GForce 040 and other accelerators

[Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ie@localhost>]

> > It doesn't seem to be in the Amiga-port FTP directory; however the author
> > claims it will run under Linux with libc5
> > (e.g., RedHat 5) or glibc2. I see a binary distribution for glib-1.2.7 but
> > am uncertain if libc5 is there.
 
 RedHat 5 is a libc6 system. They were the first vendor to switch to libc6,
 and that happened with RedHat 5.0.

 glib is NOT glibc2. It is a different library altogether, providing a bunch
 of utility functions used by GDK, GTK+ and so on.

 glibc2 == GNU libc 2.x == libc6. Pre-6 versions of Linux libc were not based
 on GNU libc IIRC, not even on GNU libc 1.x.

> surely not.
> 
> What the author talks about is different generations of Linux/i386
> systems, which either had different libraries, encoded differently,
> supporting probably different entry points...
> 
> None of them will run on NetBSD/m68k.
> 
> However, assuming he did release the source and did not use special evil
> Linux tricks, but rather the standard set of Posix comliant library calls
> (and maybe basic X11 library calls), his code should be compilable on 
> NetBSD.

 Presumably :-)