"marco.fioretti" wrote:
>
Building from scratch is really easy. I thought it would be a long
compile, tons of dependency headers to download etc. It wasn't. THe
only thing you neet is the standard X11 headers, which I am sure RH
included w/ install.
Because bb is so small, on my k6-II 400 (64MB) the make took less than a
minute, as opposed to sane or gimp which took 10minutes.
Shea
> Hello again,
>
> somebody kindly pointed out to me that the blackbox web site
> defines 0.61.1 as the stable version. I already knew this,
> and I had already searched rpmfind.net for the corresponding
> package.
>
> The point is that blackbox-0.61.1XXXi386.rpm is only
> listed for other distributions, not Red Hat 6.2.
>
> If a certain version of a tool is declared stable and bug free by itself, it won't
>necessarily remain like that with
> every version of every distro around (i.e. interworking
> with every combination of kernel/glibc/X server/....)
>
> Hence my concerns.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Marco
>
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