Re: [linrad] Linrad and Mandrake 9.2

[Richard Bown <richard.bown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Richard 
the svgalib was last distributed on MDK8.2, you DO NOT have to be a club
member to go on to the download site to gain access to it.
If you use easy urpmi you can set up the MDK8.2 as a source the n all
the rpms contained in MDK8.2 can be display from the control center.
to find the easy urpmi site just google for it.
I have svgalib 1.4.3mdk on this system.


Watch your syslog when you try to start an app that needs svgalibs , it
will give you an idea where the symlinks need to be set.

HTH
Richard
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 16:31, Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
> Before you give up on Mandrake 9.2, I think you can dig into your problem a little more and come to a solution.  You may need a symlink between libvga.so.1 and libvga and libvgagl.so.1 and libvgagl ... I had a similar problem on Red Hat. 
> 
> Here is a post from a long time ago before I learned about symlinks.  It will also fix the problem, but it is not as elegant.
> 
> *****
> 
> As long as we are on the subject of libraries ...
> 
> I attempted to compile linrad 00.51 on my Redhat 8.0 system, but got an
> error message that the linker could not find the libraries specified by
> -lvga and -lvgagl.  After learning a bit about how gcc works with ld, I
> found I could compile by changing in the Makefile
> 
> 
> 	gcc -olinrad -lvga -lvgagl \ 
> <rest of command deleted for brevity>
> 
> to 
> 
> 	gcc -olinrad /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 /usr/lib/libvgal.so.1 \ 
> <rest of command deleted for brevity>
> 
> I have not figured out why ld is not searching for the libraries in the
> standard path with the original Makefile generated by configure.
> 
> -Joe KM1P
> ******
> 
>   
> > I got mine from one of the Linux magazines at the newsagent. It seems 
> > Mandrake is starting to get away a bit fom the Open Source ethos towards 
> > a commercial model - how is supporting a commercial entity suporting the 
> > Linux community?
> 
> Mandrake has been and continues to be a big contributor to the community, but they have discovered that when they give _all_ their stuff away, they cannot make enough money to pay their employees enough so they can eat, buy clothing and find a place to live.  You speak of the "Open Source ethos" ... unfortunately that is a rather vague term ... it means something different to pretty much everybody.  I get the sense that you would like to get all your software without paying for it ... which is fine, but you will likely have to jump through a few more hoops than those that choose to pay for a fully QC'ed distro.  That's part of the Linux adventure.  Fortunately, there are lots of folks out there that are willing to help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Joe KM1P
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Hosking wrote:
> 
> > I have tried various options and got the libraries libvgagl.so.1 and 
> > libvga.so.1 into /usr/lib/  by copying them directly. I gather this is 
> > not sufficient, however, and I cant get the full package to compile.
> > When I rpm linrad, it says it doesnt see these files
> > Oh well - guess I will go and spend my money.
> > 
> > svgalib doesnt seem to be a package included in the Mandrake 9.2 distro. 
> > I got mine from one of the Linux magazines at the newsagent. It seems 
> > Mandrake is starting to get away a bit fom the Open Source ethos towards 
> > a commercial model - how is supporting a commercial entity suporting the 
> > Linux community?
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
> > 
> >> Richard Hosking wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I would be happy to consider payment for an rpm if it is supporting 
> >>> the Linux community. Is Mandrakesoft a commercial entity?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> They are a commercial entity, and supporting them is definitely 
> >> supporting Linux community.
> >> -Joe KM1P
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
-- 
Richard Bown <richard.bown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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