On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:24:13PM -0200, Andre Ribeiro wrote:
I saw a very good tool called wavemon thats show's in real time statistics about wireless cards but i can't ran in sisela 0.3.
When i try run ./wavemon they says cannot find the file.
Because of the way the programs and libraries on the disk have been compiled to save space, you generally can't add software to a Sisela system and have it work - sorry!
Everything is compiled against the uClibc library, a more compact alternative to the standard GNU libc. Binaries built for GNU libc (which is what you'll get if you compile software on your usual Linux system) won't work. There are no extra libraries beyond the absolute basics that were needed, so for example no ncurses (a library useful for drawing pretty pictures with text, required by Wavemon).
Furthermore, all the libraries are trimmed during the build process to include only the functions that were actually needed for the programs on the disk. So even if a program is compiled against uClibc and only uses libc functions, it may still not work.
If you'd like extra software in your Sisela build, ask me and I'll try to include it in a custom build, or the next version. Or, download the source package and have a go at adding it yourself.
Martin