Compile errors on 0.27 and libgetcwd

[Chris Wing]

Jack:

FYI, I have a patch to libc5 that adds the getcwd() syscall so that you
don't have to use libgetcwd to make things work. I had to write it because
although we are using the latest Red Hat w/glibc2.1, we needed to make
some commercial Linux applications run which are still only available for
libc5.

I'll send it to you if you're interested.

As several others have pointed out, glibc2.0 is no good with Arla for the
same reason... if at all possible you should use glibc2.1. (The glibc in
Red Hat 6.0 is nice enough to work with both glibc2.0 and glibc2.1 apps
and uses the getcwd() syscall in both cases)

-Chris Wing
wingc at engin.umich.edu


On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Jack Neely wrote:

> Well, I guess I DO have conflicting libs.  I'm running Slackware 4.0 which
> is libc5 based but has glibc2.0.7 compatiblity.  Arla was compiled with
> libc5 and all the programs that I am having this problem with are glibc
> linked.
> 
> I guess there's not an easy way around this.  I can link it to glibc but
> I'd rather not.