[linrad] Re: Unable to compile linrad-2.34 on Ubuntu Feisty

[Leif Asbrink <sm5bsz.com; leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,
 
> >> I can't get linrad to compile on a relative clean installation of Ubuntu 
> >> Feisty (7.04).
 
> > The only error is that the C compiler is not properly installed. 
> > I do not know the exact reason, maybe the run time libraries are
> > missing. Have a look at config.log, it might advice what more
> > packages you need to make GCC work.

> Thanks for the quick reply.  Some searching turn up this link
>    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190193
> which suggests that I need to install libc6-dev.  That helped.
Good:-)

> I also needed to install the xorg-dev package.
This is not quite true. You have two choices. In case you want
to run Linrad under X11 you surely have to install xorg-dev but
you have the option to install in terminal mode and then you 
do not need xorg-dev. Instead you would have to install svgalib.

I usually prefer svgalib because I want the entire screen for 
Linrad.

Under elderly distributions and in particular on elderly computers
X11 might be too slow and Linrad might not work under it even though
Linrad would run happily with svgalib. 

With modern Linux an on reasonably modern computers, running 
Linrad under X11 can be more efficient than running with 
svgalib (not that it matters on a fast computer....)

Linrad was originally designed to run on a 66 MHz Pentium. 
Initially svgalib was the only possible solution. I still
test Linrad on a 100 MHz Pentium from time to time to make
sure it still works on slow computers, but I will not 
continue to do this much longer because the old computers take
up too much table space. In the future I will only check
Pentium II and up.

73

Leif / SM5BSZ

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