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Re: [SLUG] lpr with JetDirect (solution)


On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:06:37AM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote:
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> 
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Richard Ames wrote:
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> > Ken was right on target....  RedHat suggests LPRng and apparently have it in
> > Rawhide.  See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14691
> 
> Don't rip the binary rpm out of rawhide btw!
> 
> because it's based on glibc 2.2 and won't work with glibc 2.1, Get the
> source rpm for it and recompile it, That should work for you.

Is this true? I thought incompatibilities at the libc level were supposed
to warrant a major number increase.

at I understand it the incompatiblities between 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 are not
at an interface level but in different implementations and other programs
(unreasonable) expectations of specific side-effects.

Anand