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Date:19 Jan 2004 02:23:13 -0000 
Subject:Re: Poplog on FreeBSD 
From:john duncan 
Volume-ID:1040119.01 

  Hi, Aaron
           I copied over a stock standard Birmingham set-up built on 
Debian Stable.

           I see now that there is a linux-dev-7.1 for FreeBSD that has 
gcc, binutils and XFree86-dev. It will be interesting to try and build 
poplog in /compat/linux/usr/local.

> [JD]
> 
>>Up it comes with everything working. I have tried what I know ; which
>>isn't much since everything I want to do in pop11 seems to lead me to C
>>which consumes my time.
> 
> 
> There is a fairly quick and easy and quite demanding test for the
> installation.

( snip )

> If all that works, then probably everything else willm, as it
> tests many things including asynchronous event handling as well
> as the graphics. (However I don't use anything from motif, so it
> should all work if you link poplog without motif.)

  I ran the sheepdog demo like you said and it worked well even with Motif.

  There is still a problem with exiting Poplog but I am starting to 
suspect the Gnome 2.4 virtual file system, I had similar problems on 
Debian Unstable which also has Gnome 2.4.

> How recent is the poplog from which you started? My linux poplog
> packages now have an empty file in $usepop whose name indicates
> The version. E.g. the latest one should have something like this:
> 
>     ls -l This*
>     -rw-r--r--    1 axs     0 Nov  3 00:00 This.is.linux.poplog.V15.53d

    It is the v15.53d version from just 2 days ago.

                                                    All the best,
                                                     John Duncan