From owner-freebsd-libh Tue Oct 22 6:47: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743EA37B406 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D177443E77 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30232 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2002 13:46:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Oct 2002 13:46:54 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9MDknn5062516; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:46:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021022045257.GH3283@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:46:53 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: The Anarcat Subject: RE: rhtvision links against X11 Cc: Libh Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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++. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message