Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:25:40 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Cc: freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Details on project status Message-ID: <20010619222540.C3034@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <3B2FA89E.4040501@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:31:42PM -0400 References: <3B265389.5030308@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010614181400.D3411@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <3B2FA89E.4040501@lmc.ericsson.se>
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Thus spake Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca): > > Depending on the final solution how this is implemented, I want > > the NO_QT and NO_TVISION knobs be tweaks to decide if the > > text,graphics,text+graphics versions are build in /usr/obj. > Ok. I don't think I could help very much here. This requires massive > compilations, and I don't have a really good beast for that. Indeed, I don't have either and I'm not a make expert. I hoped Neil Blakey-Milner could help here, but I think he is too busy at the moment. > Unless someone would gratuously give me a box better than a pentium 166 > with 32Mb of ram. :) Heh. Nice. I know how long it takes to compile libh on such a box. I have a newer laptop which compiles it in approx. 15 minutes (roughly estimated), which is still quite long. > > - the lib/tcl subdir is not good. It depends on the other libs > > but won't get recompiled automatically if you changed anything > > in the other directories' *.cd.cc files (actually, that are the only > > files of interest for the tcl libs). > Hmm... This is a dark spot for me. I know C well. I know TCL a bit. But > both at the same time? Eek. :) Actually, it's only make stuff - the dependencies between the objects are broken. For example, if I change anything in lib/hui/Hui.cd.cc, I have to do (cd lib/hui && make) && (cd lib/tcl && make) && (cd bin/tclh && make NO_SHARED=yes) > So in short, recompiling is always "interrupted" to say the least. I am > in the process of finding a decent browser for unix and compiling some > jabber client to make my "family" happy with FreeBSD. ;) It should continue when interrupted. > More seriously, I took a look at the code and I like it. The idea of > having the dual/independant text/graphics mode is really attractive and > creating UIs seems to be pretty straightforward. Well, we won't have such a nice looking tool like SuSE's YAST2 or the linuxconf utility because of the restrictions of the same scripts for text + graphics mode, but it's nice nevertheless. > >>I personnally think that the main distribution should move to a more > >>package-like system where files installed would get indexed... > > I agree. > <aaaaaaah....> first time I see a glitch of interest in that by > *anyone*. This is good. :) Heh :) > Oh, I totally agree with that. Even if I don't believe a single soul did > a floppy install in the last year, we have to keep it as a possibility. I know at least three people who did floppy installs on network-less + cdrom-less old machines. > Actually, I thought a bit more about that, and well... Doesn't the > release process actually installs files in a temporary directory and > then just package that? Yes, I think this is correct. > It should be possible to hack on libh on -stable anyways (?). Yes, JKH recently submitted some patches that made it possible. > Don't worry about that for now. :)I'm just one curious geek. I'll tell > you when I'll start coding, and on what. :) OK, I can also tell you my design wishes for the setup tool then. Thanks! Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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