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Date:Mon Nov 15 22:29:12 1995 
Subject:Re: Linux Poplog - seg fault? 
From:Ben Lippolt 
Volume-ID:951118.01 

ianr@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Ian Rogers) writes:

>Ben Lippolt (bjl@sparta.research.ptt.nl) wrote:
>> Poplog runs on Linux 1.2.X but not on 1.3.X kernels. Julian mentioned in an
>> earlier post that they didn't test it on 1.3 because that was the development

>I'm not convinced about this.

>Steve: exactly which Linux setup were you running? If it was an ELF system
>then it won't work as Poplog is still a.out.

>I'm considering getting RedHat 2.1 which is ELF kernel 1.3.x but has a good
>set of a.out compatability libraries.

>Can anyone confirm whether or not Poplog works on 1.3.x but with
>a.out libraries??

It doesn't matter whether you have elf or a.out libraries, because the
poplog binaries are statically linked. 
I have tried poplog on several 1.3.X kernels and on the 1.2.13 kernel.
In all case the system was exactly the same (except for the kernel).
I've build all the kernel myself (same options, drivers, compilers, etc).
It runs on 1.2.13 and not on 1.3.X. 

I would suggest that you just go ahead with RedHat but also get the kernel
source of 1.2.13 and build that. It should run fine with the rest of
the system. [I have also a SCSI DAT-drive which only works properly since
1.3.20 or so, so I'm forced to run a newer kernel, otherwise I would be
quite happy to run 1.2.13]


Ben.