Re: Source download failure.

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Q wrote:
> apt-get install gcc/stable gcc-2.95/stable

Ah, I think I'll get rid of that part of the instructions. You might
need to use GCC 2.95 if you're on woody or on a very ancient sarge, but
I doubt anyone is nowadays. The GCC you used to build your kernel is
perfectly fine, the whole point is to use the same GCC version for the
kernel *and* for the fglrx module.

> The questions that sprang to my mind then were how do I specify which
> version of GCC to use - and is gcc.2.95 even compatable with recent
> version of the 2.6x kernels? [...]

Don't know about GCC 2.95 vs. kernel 2.6 -- should be compatible, but I
don't know for sure. How to choose which GCC to use... that's the reason
for the "gcc/stable" package, which would make your system default to
the GCC in use at the time of woody, i.e. 2.95; you can also set the
proper environment variables when you compile things, but I always found
this difficult to get right, so I prefer to have my system default to
the correct GCC and forget about the issue.

But, as I said, this is a moot point now. 2.95 is not needed in your
case, the GCC you are currently using is perfectly fine.

> [...] The required packages section was slightly confusing, as it 
> appears these packages are required for kernel compiling (which I 
> seem to have no problems with). I could be wrong about this - but 
> in any case they seemed to cause a whole host of conflicts 
> and dependency issue with my distro.

The longer list of required packages applies only if you want to build
the fglrx packages from source, the shorter list applies to the kernel
module. Note that this *is* explicitly written on my page.

You will of course need a few packages to build the kernel, but that's
another matter and is way beyond the scope of my page.

> But I think what's clear is that I am missing some required libraries. 
> The question is, which ones - and how do I install them without 
> running into a dependency and conflic hell?

If you are having dependency problems, I think your system is somewhat
messed up. With a log of the dpkg output, I might be able to help.

> I did follow your link btw and I did install the package you linked to.
> But I am still getting the same error message 'incomplete environment.'

You're missing libqt3-mt-dev.

-- 
Ciao, Flavio