[bt-devel] Missing bt-printing

[Brook Humphrey]

On Sunday 13 May 2001 04:41 am, you wrote:
> Tim:
> >If our objective is to ensure a painless installation, we need to be able
> > to articulate what those things are, don't you agree?
>
> I agree.  I guess I have just gotten used to the fact that I often have to
> figure out which 3/4 of my system packages upgrade in order to install new
> software.
>
> > I also needed to upgrade my rpm package from v3.0.4(also a dangerous
> > process; I lost my package database and had to rebuild it) in order to
> > even try to install the binary distribution(s).
>
> I know what you mean.  When I upgraded KDE, my system locked up to the
> point where I couldn't even ssh in to shut it down.  Power cycling
> (*OUCH!*) kindly corrupted my mbr:(
>
> > I'm going to assume that I need to move from XFree 4.0.1 to 4.0.3 on my
> > rh7 box today to get the libXrender and libXft libraries, and take your
> > advice to upgrade the libstdc++ as well.  Also, another post alludes to
> > the broken compiler in rh7.  If this is a problem to BibleTime, then
> > should we say so in the documentation?  Risking being pendantic again,
> > but should the documentation for developers state what compiler version
> > most are developing on?  GCC v2.95.2 if 2.96 is broken?
>
> The compiler was listed as a RH problem a while ago on their site.   They
> have posted a fix for both the compiler and the libraries on their site as
> well.  I would agree that it might be good to list it in the install docs,
> or even in a FAQ, like the developers of QCAD have done.   Perhaps I can
> add that in somewhere, if anyone has any suggestions?
>
> Chris

Just so that our efforts are not recreated I've not spent allot of 
troubleshooting time on this but Bibletime 3.0 and above will not compile on 
redhat up to 7.0 with the compiler updates or caldera up to 3.1beta. They 
give such strange errors that I'm not even sure were to start.

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