Tom K wrote:
> Tom K wrote:
>   
>> Rohan Dhruva wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> No, Tom, this is not what ubuntu uses. Ubuntu uses usplash -- which 
>>> requires special 'hooks' in initrd, unlike splashy.
>>>
>>> But, imo, someone who uses arch is experienced enough to set up 
>>> bootsplash .. I hope arch is not having plans of providing it by 
>>> default, a la frugalware, ubuntu etc etc.
>>>
>>> Rohan.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Yeah, big plans - just like the [stable] repo!
>>
>> Someone who uses Arch would also know that Arch provides nothing by 
>> default - if you want it, you do it yourself. Just the way it should be, 
>> if you ask me. :)
>>
>>   
>>     
> Here's what I can see so far. The build aborts on a command that looks 
> for the following in /usr/lib:
>
> directfb-0.9.24/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.a
> directfb-0.9.24/wm/libdirectfbwm_default.a
> directfb-0.9.24/gfxdrivers/libdirectfb_mach64.a  (I've compiled directfb 
> with that driver only - I expect it would look for all of them with a 
> full directfb install)
> libz.a
> libdirectfb.a
> libfusion.a
> libdirect.a
> libpthread.a
> libglib-2.0.a
> libpng.a
> I have directfb, zlib, glibc, glib2, and libpng installed, but I don't 
> have any of those files. However, I do have files with the same name, 
> but with extension .so instead of .a. I can run the aborted command 
> successfully if I change each .a to .so, so that's progress, of a sort. 
>   
More progress. I've just run the splashy test command successfully, and 
the default theme popped up large as life.

That's the good news. The bad news is what I had to do to get there - 
sed commands to change lib extensions from .a to .so, which I can live 
with, and ldconfig for /usr/lib/directfb and all its subdirectories, 
which I can't. Ultimately this thing should run from intrd/intramfs, and 
it can only do that if the libs are compiled statically - right? In 
./configure --help, the --enable-static option is the default, but it's 
always possible some of my sed hacking borked something else - it was 
fairly crude, as I just wanted to see if I could get it to run. I'll 
have another stab at it, and see if I can get any further.

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