xyzLinux: April 2005

xyzLinux

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Freeware for Solaris

Freeware for Solaris
Freeware@Sun

- posted by cygwinxp @ 11:23 PM 0 comments

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Linux Shared Libraries

Shared Libraries

Berkeley DB for UNIX - Dynamic Shared Libraries

- posted by cygwinxp @ 7:55 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Compile gnome terminal

From: Ivan Noris
To: garnome-list gnome org
Subject: Re: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:56:16 +0100

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> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
> make[7]: *** [configure-work/main.d/shared-mime-info-0.13/configure] Error
> 1

as someone pointed today or yesterday:

su -
(need to be root)

perl -MCPAN -e shell
(would run CPAN module of Perl)

install XML::Parser
(would install XML::Parser and all of its dependencies)

then you can continue building Garnome

To the Garnome maintainer(s): there should be a little paragraph in the README
file mentioning this, or you could list all of perl modules you have to
install for Garnome to work.

regards,
VIX

--

Ing. Ivan Noris
System engineer, Business Global Systems, a.s.
info & public key: http://www.bgs.sk/people/noris
__________________________________________________________________
"Semper cautus - semper paratus - semper idem Vix."

- posted by cygwinxp @ 8:31 AM 0 comments

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Install DDD and compile ncurses

Found some error that cannot start xfce4 properly. So I go to tools warehouse and install DDD. After install DDD, I cannot run it. It complains libncurses.so cannot be found.

Download ncurses, compile and install. Still cannot resolve the issue. No choice, I am starting to download DDD and compile it by myself now.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

Debugging Shared Libraries in gdb and ddd
I looked everywhere for a straight answer on this, and couldn't find one. So once i figured it out I figured I'd help anyone else out who runs into the same problems. This is just based on experience, not on research. So if something's wrong here LMK. I'm using:ddd 3.3.7 (i386-suse-linux-gnu)
gdb 5.3.92
gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
ddd seems to sort of half supports delayed breakpoints. If you debug your binary (with shared libraries loaded) once, set the breakpoints needed, and then kill it ddd will save those breakpoints, and try to set them in the next debugging session every time a shared library is loaded.
The problem is in many cases gdb will give a dumb message after loading the shared library with breakpoints in question, effectively bringing debugging to a halt:error in loading shared libraries: libsome_file.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
To get around this problem, preload the the library using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. Use the following command at the ddd or gdb command line:set environment LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libsome_file.so.1

- posted by cygwinxp @ 6:47 AM 0 comments

Friday, April 08, 2005

How to port XFCE to interix ?

Today, I decide to start port XFCE to interix. I search through www.xfce.org and found that XFCE depend on the following modules:

Xfce 4 requirements

Building Xfce 4 modules depends on :
pkgconfig , a system for managing library compile/link flags that works with automake and autoconf.
GTK+ >= 2.2 (also dev packages), the GIMP multi-platform toolkit designed for creating graphical user interfaces.
libxml2, a XML C library developed for the Gnome project.
libdbh, the "Disk based hashtables" library, is needed for xffm, the file manager.

Make sure you have these packages (and their *-devel packages) installed.

Optional dependencies :

librsvg >= 2.2.x, a SAX-based renderer library for SVG files, that has to be installed if you want to use SVG icons for the panel.
libstartup-notification >= 0.5, a library that has to be installed if you want to use the startup notification feature.

Out of the 4 dependant modules, three of them already avaiable in interix which can be download from Tool Warehouse. libdbh need to be ported to interix first.

Working procedure:

Download source under /sfu/sources/contrib/dbh-1.0.24
This package is able to compile without problem.
Add package gtk+ and find the following error:
Fixed this by using command "pkg_add -v -f packagename" to force the installation. The dependency in toolwarehouse is quite mess.
I can download xfce source and start to compile it now.

Building the modules

If you have downloaded the source tarballs, unpack them.

If you install into a different prefix from pkg-config, you have to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to include the path to the *.pc files installed by the Xfce 4 libraries, which is ${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig. For example:

Building the modules should be a simple matter of typing :

./configure &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;& make && make install

in the top directory of each module, in the following build order :

libxfce4util
libxfcegui4
libxfce4mcs
xfce-mcs-manager
all other modules (you have to install xfce4 panel before compiling panel plugins).
dbh-1.0.22.tar.gz
libxfce4util-4.2.1.tar.gz
libxfcegui4-4.2.1.tar.gz
libxfce4mcs-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce-mcs-manager-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce-mcs-plugins-4.2.1.tar.gz
gtk-xfce-engine-2.2.6.tar.gz
xfcalendar-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce-utils-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-appfinder-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-icon-theme-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-iconbox-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-mixer-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-panel-4.2.1.1.tar.gz
xfce4-session-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-systray-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-toys-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfce4-trigger-launcher-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfdesktop-4.2.1.tar.gz
xffm-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfprint-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfwm4-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfwm4-themes-4.2.1.tar.gz

libtool error
xfce4-systray-4.2.1.tar.gz
xfdesktop-4.2.1.tar.gz
Cannot compile file manager
xffm-4.2.1.tar.gz cannot compile xfprint-4.2.1.tar.gz

xfce4-mixer-4.2.1.tar.gz compilation error:

vc_oss.c:81: error: `SOUND_MIXER_NRDEVICES' undeclared here (not in a function)vc_oss.c:81: error: `SOUND_DEVICE_LABELS' undeclared here (not in a function)
vc_oss.c: In function `find_master':
vc_oss.c:100: error: `SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK' undeclared (first use in this function)
vc_oss.c:100: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only oncevc_oss.c:100: error: for each function it appears in.)
vc_oss.c:107: error: `SOUND_MIXER_NRDEVICES' undeclared (first use in this function)vc_oss.c: In function `find_control':
vc_oss.c:161: error: `SOUND_MIXER_NRDEVICES' undeclared (first use in this function)vc_oss.c: In function `vc_get_control_list':
vc_oss.c:250: error: `SOUND_MIXER_NRDEVICES' undeclared (first use in this function)vc_oss.c: At top level:
vc_oss.c:81: error: storage size of `label' isn't known

After installing a library you should run ldconfig. It may be necessary to add /usr/local to /etc/ld.so.conf.

If there are errors, try to run ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure. In that case you need to have automake, autoconf and libtool installed. If this doesn't work please report to the xfce mailing list: xfce4-dev@xfce.org.

The gtk-xfce-engine-2 theme engine has to be installed using the same path as your GTK+ installation, usually /usr. In that case you have to use the following command in the gtk-xfce-engine-2 top directory :

Some FreeBSD document that need to refer to:

- posted by cygwinxp @ 10:11 PM 0 comments

Sunday, April 03, 2005

docs.sun.com: Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

How to display Chinese character in SunOS - docs.sun.com: Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

- posted by cygwinxp @ 10:44 PM 0 comments