On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:57:16 +0100, Stephen Isard
<S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk> said:
>Aaron Sloman wrote:
>> But only if they use the RPM mechanism. Other things that you install in
>> a more conventional way (untar, configure, then make, then make install)
>> will not have their dependencies liested in the RPM tables.
>
>I was assuming from Jonathan's message that he had a fresh installation
>containing only what Mandrake itself had installed from its rpms.
Yes, that is correct (ish). The only thing I'd installed before poplog
was a driver for my graphics card (which is considerably newer than
the rest of the machine, because the old card had failed). And the
driver was available for different versions of Linux. The Mandrake
version (and RH etc.) was as a rpm package. But it wouldn't have
needed to mess with motif libraries anyway, I would think.
>I've actually come to prefer letting rpm look after this kind of thing
(snip)
I'm all for an easy life. It's when something opaque *doesn't* work
that I curse the programmer.
>I can produce a libc5 version linked with X if there is a demand for it
>(but I don't think there is). In fact anyone with the current libc5
>version and a C compiler can do it for themselves, following the
>instructions in the README, which in turn point to Aaron's notes on
>relinking.
What I wanted was to run pop11 programs as GUI-less servers, and I
wouldn't be running X-Windows on (an internet) server anyway. So I'm
happy with a cut-down poplog, it's just that I've got used to GUI
tools, I've used several different ones since I last used poplog
seriously and they've given me some idea of what I use/don't use.
Now that I've written my first pop11 procedures for several years[1]
(last night) I expect to start making some improvements[2] to ved,
which I will in due course contribute back to the community.
Jonathan
[1] It's amazing how much I *haven't* forgotten. Although I expect
my dialect sounds quaint and outdated.
[2] My idea of "improvements" anyway :-).
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Jonathan Cunningham (catching up with backlog)
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