[linrad] Re: Linux distributions

[richard <blueyonder.co.uk; richard.bown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
> richard wrote:
>
> > I did auto complete  Joe just the way it downloaded, I agree it does 
> > help sanity, when all about seem to be losing theirs :)
>
>
> Well, I just tried
>
> [jfitzgerald@xxxxxx ~]$ wget http://www.svgalib.org/svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz
> --10:33:33--  http://www.svgalib.org/svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz
>           => `svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz'
> Resolving www.svgalib.org... 80.74.115.3
> Connecting to www.svgalib.org|80.74.115.3|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 840,282 (821K) [application/x-gzip]
>
> 100%[=====================================================>] 
> 840,282       87.80K/s    ETA 00:00
>
> 10:33:44 (84.00 KB/s) - `svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz' saved [840282/840282]
>
> [jfitzgerald@xxxxxx ~]$ tar xfvz svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz
> svgalib-1.4.3/
> svgalib-1.4.3/0-INSTALL
> svgalib-1.4.3/0-README
> svgalib-1.4.3/Makefile
> svgalib-1.4.3/Makefile.cfg
> svgalib-1.4.3/demos/
> svgalib-1.4.3/demos/Makefile
> ...
>
> and all was well.  Perhaps autocomplete is tricking you?  Note that if 
> you try again, autocomplete only goes as far as 'svgalib-1.4.3' - the 
> name of the directory you just untarred.  Make sure you rm -rf the old 
> svgalib directory (or type out the full filename)
>
> -Joe KM1P
Highly probably Joe, but 1.4.3 does not build :(
/home/Richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3919:1: error: pasting "." and "HDisplay" does not 
give a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3920:1: error: pasting "." and "HSyncStart" does not 
give a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3921:1: error: pasting "." and "HSyncEnd" does not 
give a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3922:1: error: pasting "." and "HTotal" does not give 
a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3923:1: error: pasting "." and "VDisplay" does not 
give a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3924:1: error: pasting "." and "VSyncStart" does not 
give a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3925:1: error: pasting "." and "VSyncEnd" does not 
give a valid preprocessing token
/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c:3926:1: error: pasting "." and "VTotal" does not give 
a valid preprocessing token
make[1]: *** [vga.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/richard/HamApps/svgalib-1.4.3/sharedlib'
make: *** [sharedlib/libvga.so.1.4.3] Error 2

At least 9.24 does but no svga-helper

Back to RPM's, at least the helpers thers !

tnx
73 ERichard G8JVM

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