[Barry-devel] GUI on gentoo

2008-06-17 Thread ashley willis
i'm running gentoo on both an amd64 system and a crusoe laptop, and i can't get the GUI (version 0.12) compiled on either due to problems with libtar. is there a certain version of libtar needed? is there another linux distro that the GUI works on, which can be installed in vmware? i

Re: [Barry-devel] GUI on gentoo

2008-06-28 Thread ashley willis
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Chris Frey wrote: i ended up installing ubuntu under vmware and getting it to work. i also ended up writing a command-line perl program which calls a hacked version of btool to create compatible backup files. i've also written programs to deconstruct and reconstruct

[Barry-devel] 'Input Learning Data' record count off

2008-06-29 Thread ashley willis
problem: btool -t says that 'Input Learning Data' has 22 records, while btool -T 'Input Learning Data' shows 5, and so does btool -d 'Input Learning Data'. all other database counts are correct. i had just written a significantly faster 'barrybkup' but it breaks on this. what is this database

Re: [Barry-devel] perl contributions, was: GUI on gentoo

2008-07-05 Thread ashley willis
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Chris Frey wrote: Thanks for these changes. I took a quick look at the package, and noticed that now the -p option is required, otherwise you end up with an empty -p command line option, if I'm reading the code right. The -p option should only be added if the user