MOL and "sheep" module

[Joseph E. Sacco, PhD]

ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yellowdog-4.0/en/os/YellowDog/RPMS/mol-0.9.71-0.ydl.1.ppc.rpm


-Joseph

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On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:43 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I'm trying to get MOL to work on YDL 4.0.1 and am not getting too far. 
> The most obvious problem is that the "sheep" module is not getting 
> loaded, apparently because it does not exist.
> 
> System: Rev. "A" iMac (Bondi Blue), 256 Mb. RAM. YDL 4.0.1 updated via yum.
> 
> I have tried re-building the mol rpms as per instructions from Joseph 
> Sacco on this list, both with and without the sheep patches. Sheep does 
> not get built no matter what I do.
> 
> Trying to build from scratch, I was unable to find the  mol-0.9.71 
> source, only 0.9.70, and trying to compile that resulted in many errors, 
> starting with "entering Linux" and multiple problems with "alloc.h".
> 
> Mol has been around for quite a while, as has YDL, and it seems to me 
> that there ought to be an "RPM" package that would give me at least 
> minimal functionality.
> 
> I have seen references to this problem on this list, but no solution 
> other than rebuilding the RPM which, as I said, is not working for me.
> 
> Other than that, YDL seems to be a good solution for this old iMac, the 
> basic Linux install is working quite solidly.
> 
> I apologize if this is a FAQ, but I have searched diligently and tried 
> everything I can think of to get mol working. I'd appreciate any 
> suggestions as to what (probably stupid) thing or things I am doing wrong.
> 
> Much thanks.
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