Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 17/03/2008, Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:51:29AM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
>
>  > Eg. just try to compile some software that wasn't touched
>  > since 2000 or so. You'll have a hard time, believe me.
>
> Yeah, it took me a good couple of afternoons once to compile some
>  1994-vintage software a month or two back.

libc major versions and tracking down versions of libraries that
export the proper symbols can make it tricky, but...

>  Oh, wait, that wasn't so hard after all.

Agreed.

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Cheers,
Josh