[pocket-linux] Chapter 3 : no shell : Reason

[David Horton]

Bettes wrote:
> Just a summary of the shell problem.
> 
> This problems happens when you compile with a recent distribution and testing 
> it on an old PC.
> 
> I was using:
> SuSE 8.2 on an Athlon 1Ghz, 256 MB RAM as development machine
> P I 100Mhz, 32 MB RAM as test machine.
> 
> The sympton is that all goes well till the moment you expect to see the shell.
> But the shell never appears.
> 
> Reason of the problem: 
> It has something to do with the used libraries of the development machine. 
> They seem not to work on the test machine.
> However, If you try the floppies on your development machine they work as 
> expected.
> 
> Solution:
> Not found yet :-(
> 
> 

I think the quickest solution is to use libraries that are known to be 
compatible with older systems.  For pre-built, i386 compatible libraries 
you can get glibc from my web site. 
[http://www.happy-monkey.net/architect/bin-pkgs/glibc-2.3.2.i386.tar.gz] 
    I also think the Slackware distro uses i486 compatible libraries.

If you want to be bold you can build your own glibc from source.  It's 
not really any more difficult than building any other GNU software, it 
just takes a long time.  If you download Architect from SourceForge 
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/architect/] there is a shell script in 
the recipes directory called glibc-2.3.2 that will show the steps needed 
to build from source.

Dave