nanogui: Re: Compiling nano-X (SVGAlib) under Linux Mandrake 8]
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[Fwd: [nanogui] Compiling nano-X (SVGAlib) under Linux Mandrake 8]
From:
David Creelman ####@####.####
Date:
6 Jul 2001 07:54:59 -0000
Message-Id: <3B45717B.AE6BCA1A@geko.net.au>
David,
I ran into a whole slew of problems compiling other relatively
straightforward packages (Rascal, playavi, anything needing latex)
on Mandrake 8.0.
It seems that a whole lot of development RPMs are not installed by default.
This means you need to go and backtrack from the error messages and work
out what the name of the missing development packages are and install them.
Needless to say, this is rather painful. I thought I'd chosen 'development'
on install, but I must have missed something. I'll drop a line over to
Mandrake to let them know what a pain it is.
...On other software I've also had problems with the C Compiler. The
release used in RH and Mandrake is not stable. Sometimes as/ld just dumps
core and tells you to report the error condition to the developers. This
just seems silly, but that's what happens on the cutting edge.
I've got a similar setup here, so I'll give it a try and see how I go.
Cheers
David
David Douthitt wrote:
> I'm trying to do this, but find many errors:
>
> 1. drivers/kbd_ttyscan.c - ioctl_setpalette() and ioctl_getpalette()
> don't exist.
> 2. drivers/kbd_ttyscan.c - during running of nano-X, it produces:
>
> KDGKBMODE: Invalid argument
> Cannot initialise keyboard
>
> ...also, the original kbd_ttyscan.c seems to have a typo in this error
> message, as it doesn't match the ioctl call above it...
>
> 3. Numerous files: either they are missing <stdlib.h> ...for exit()...
> or they are missing <string.h> ...for strcmp(), strlen()... Some use
> memset() and are missing its header file too.
>
> 4. Ghastly number of errors from the preprocessor during compilation of
> things in "nwidget" directory; fixed that by not using nwidgets
>
> I'm trying to compile 0.89pre7 with the SVGAlib (instead of
> framebuffers) and can't seem to make it happen. I was hoping that there
> was several binaries for Linux available (so I could at least try it)
> but they're not there. I wondered about RPMs... Debian packages...
> etc... Nobody's done these yet?
>
> I also don't need Microsoft Windows compatability, so I compiled for
> nanox only, and left the keyboard at "kbscan" or whatever it was.
>
> If I missed some configuration data, let me know and I'll post more
> data....
>
> I'm compiling under:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.3-20mdk #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001
> i586 unknown
> # gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.96/specs
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)
> # rpm -qa | grep svga
> svgalib-1.4.3-0.pre.20001010.1mdk
> svgalib-devel-1.4.3-0.pre.20001010.1mdk
> #
>
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