Matthew Johnson wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has been brave enough to try rebuilding Flight > Gear on these distro's that now carry GCC 3.2? > > Got SuSe 8.1 today...But have thus far been to chicken to actually > install it :). Especially as I have my workstation exactly where I want > it.
It works fine on Red Hat 8.0. There are a few warnings thrown from the UIUC stuff, mostly older headers -- <blah.h> instead of <blah>, etc. Remember that the ABI has changed, so every scrap of C++ code needs to be recompiled. Do a make clean on all of metakit, plib, SimGear and FlightGear or else you will get linkage errors. Also, I noticed that Red Hat ships glut, but for unknown reasons doesn't install it. Not only doesn't it install by default, it can't be selected from the simple installer -- it doesn't appear in any of the groups. You can see it via the "show all packages" option, or manually install the rpm after installation (it's on disc3). My recommendation, though, is to just check "everything" and forget about conserving drive space. Beyond that, I'm really happy with it. The work they've done getting (almost) the whole desktop up on Xft/fontconfig is just gorgeous. Almost all of the cool toys I like are installed by default (see www.freshrpms.net for the stuff that's missing -- especially the DVD player with CSS plugin). For the first time, essentially all of typical desktop system administration can be done via the menus; most of the tools are pretty straightforward and attractive. Expect the typical x.0 quirks, though. The installer kernel somehow ganked the USB controller on my KT333 box; I had to plug in an old keyboard and mouse to get through the install. YMMV. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
