Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:04:07 -0500 From: Daniel McRobb <dwm@caida.org> To: Daniel McRobb <dwm@caida.org> Cc: Ben Speirs <igiveup@ix.netcom.com>, Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building x11amp-0.9 Message-ID: <199902130504.XAA02201@arthur.caida.org> In-Reply-To: Message from <dwm@caida.org> of Fri Feb 12, 1999 21:47 EST <199902130247.UAA01998@arthur.caida.org>
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> > Udo Wolter wrote: > > > > > > Thanx for your hard work, but is there anyone out there which have > > > 2.2.x-Binaries ? I know that 2.2.x shouldn't be supported and that > > > only 3.x-Binaries should be available. But is there any soul which can send > > > me the libs/bins in a.out format or could anyone tell me a URL for it ? > > > > > > Thanx ! > > > > > > Bye, > > > Udo > > > > Hey Udo, I think we're toobed until we upgrade to 3.X or 4.X. I just > > re-read about the Linux thread stuff (see Eric's original post) and it > > requires some modifications to the FreeBSD kernel. If I am reading it > > correctly it is not going to work on a 2.2.X system. > > > > I'm waiting for Jordan to throw the big knife switch on 3.1-RELEASE > > before I upgrade. Until then I am enjoying x11amp-0.8 and waiting > > patiently. > > > > -- > > -Ben Speirs > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > > I could probably provide limited-feature 2.2.x binaries. I'm building > with my minor mods right now on a 2.2.8-STABLE system (last synched back > in November, I think; it's a somewhat crusty machine). The only thing I > haven't fixed yet is the global namespace problem with the plug-ins; > hence the missing features are the wav and mikmod plug-ins. I never use > x11amp for wav or mod files, but a couple of us are working on resolving > the plugin namespace problems so maybe those will eventually work as > well. > > I'm running on a 3.0-BETA (-stable from today) right now w/o any > problems (with no linuxthreads (no kernel changes), no thread-safe X > libs, and glib11-devel and gtk11-devel built straight from a current > ports tree). Everything works with no glitches so far, including > talking to Shoutcast servers. I used x11amp-0.9-alpha2 as my base, but > the changes will probably work against later versions (I plan to check > against the x11amp CVS repository some time this weekend). No patch > files yet, and I'm not sure it's wise for me or anyone else to release > patches against an alpha x11amp release since things are likely changing > quickly (unless it stays alpha for a long time). > > The reason I went the route without linux threads (and instead just used > libc_r): my desktop is SMP, and linuxthreads doesn't work on SMP > kernels (neither does the LWP stuff in CODA and other things, but I > really don't want to give up SMP at this point). It looks like the SMP > code isn't moving very quickly, unfortunately, so I might get stuck > going back to uniprocessor at some point but not right now. > > Daniel > ~~~~~~ A quick-hack binary is at: ftp://ftp.caida.org/pub/x11amp-0.9-alpha2.FreeBSD_2.2.8-STABLE.tar.gz I tar'ed with absolute paths so you can't screw up installing it. :-) See /usr/X11R6/share/x11amp/README after you untar; basically it just tells you to cvsup your ports tree and install glib11-devel and gtk11-devel before trying to run x11amp. No warranties, please don't send me mail if it doesn't work. :-) Daniel ~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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