Re: orbit stuff.

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: orbit stuff.
> From: Sri Ramkrishna <sri@aracnet.com>
> 
> 
> Whats the most important part do you need in order to get everything
> working?  I managed to get everything compiled but src/ORBitutil and the
> test program.  If these are needed in panel thats fine.  I'm using FreeBSD
> 2.2.6, and it seems that some of it requries pthreads.  Pthreads isn't in
> the default configuration, and requires a "make world" to do so.  If I get
> this sucker compiled on FreeBSD, I'll do a write up on changes.  Most of
> what I've done so far are really stupid.
> 
> One hint, don't use the autogen.sh program for ORBit.  It doesn't seem to
> run configure correctly nor detect @LEX and @LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT. Run
> configure straight. 

Have you tried this after about 01:00 GMT this night - I have fixed some
things to get it compile under FreeBSD so it should work now.

The only problem is that at the moment you can *compile* ORBit without
problems, but you cannot *use* it since the panel simply dumps core.

I'm trying to find out why this week.

Martin

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