On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Scott F. Comstock wrote: > All, > > I've managed to successfully build CDE on Arch Linux ARM (armv5el). A > few things to take note of:
Christopher Turkel hangs out here, he can add some of this info to the wiki. > > (1) Ncompress needs to be (manually) installed as /usr/bin/compress, > since this package isn't available for Arch ARM. > (2) Nawk needs to be installed for configRun to work. ok. > (3) I have these set in my host.def but haven't tried doing a build > without it: > > #define LinuxDistribution LinuxUnknown > #define HasZlib YES > Well, LinuxDistribution isn't currently used for much - at least I don't believe it is actually being set to anything. According to the comments, it's only ever worked for Suse. Might be noce getting that to work sometime - would be helpful for installCDE and friends. As for HasZlib... I think that should be set for all linuxes... they all support it. > (4) I'm running CDE under TigerVNC, since the Pogoplug E02 on which I > built CDE doesn't have video hardware. I noticed in the Style Manager, > some pixels surrounding the palette of color sample swatches seem to be > transparent, at least initially; instead of the normal dialog > background, I get whatever's underneath the dialog if it's not the > desktop wallpaper. I don't know if this is due to VNC, or something else. > Must be VNC... I can't see how CDE would cause that - on normal video hardware, that would probably be an X server bug :) -- Jon Trulson Atoms are what make us matter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
