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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:46:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
Cc:        Libh <freebsd-libh@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: rhtvision links against X11
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021022094653.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021022045257.GH3283@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>

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On 22-Oct-2002 The Anarcat wrote:
> What a mess.
> 
> We use rhtvision to provide a X-less installer and routines.
> 
> I just discovered the unimaginable:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/librhtv.so.2:
>       libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x281a3000)
>       libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x2825f000)
>       libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x28274000)
>       libstdc++.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3 (0x282b5000)
>       libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x282fa000)
>       libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x28069000)
>       libXThrStub.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXThrStub.so.6 (0x28315000)
>       libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x28317000)
>       libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x28361000)
>       libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x2836a000)
>       libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x28380000)
> 
> rhtvision seems to require X. Yay. That sucks.
> 
> I've explored rhtvision's example programs a bit, and they have a X11
> driver *by default*. That means they popup a X-window and don't
> display in the terminal you called them in if DISPLAY is set.
> 
> These demos, by the way, work pretty well *except* in TTY mode. In a
> tty, they just *ignore* any input, apparently, so rhtvision is just
> plain borked, in FreeBSD, at least.
> 
> And to make things even worse, this doesn't even fix the compilation
> issue. Liking against X and all those libs when linking the text build
> doesn't help much.
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out if it's possible to build a X-less
> rhtvision under FreeBSD and have it work. If not, we'll have to port
> tvision to GCC 3.x, or scrap the tvision approach altogether and turn
> to another text mode backend. DlDialog, maybe?

It shouldn't be that hard to forward port tvision to ANSI C++.

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