On Thu, 5 May 2005 04:19, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: > > Also, the current version of FG needs a newer version of plib than > > Sarge provides. What are the ramifications of installing both Deb > > plib and CVS plib at the same time? > > The big questions are: do you need to *develop* against both the > sarge version of plib and the newer plib? and, do you need to use the > CVS plib, or will the sid plib suffice? > > If the answer to the 1st q. is no, then, as long as somebody else > doesn't say that the debian plib1.8.4 is too old for the CVS > flightgear, try to add an unstable deb-src line to your apt > sources list, like this (use your local mirror instead): > $ grep unstable /etc/apt/sources.list > deb-src http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ unstable > main contrib non-free > > and then, as root, do > # apt-get update > and then try to build the newer plib (which is already in unstable) > as a source package. For this, you need to > # apt-get build-dep plib1.8.4-dev > > Then make sure you don't have the older plib-dev deb package around, > e.g., in my case, you had to do > # apt-get remove plib1.8.3-dev > Now you can safely do > # apt-src -i build plib1.8.4-dev > > Having a current sarge system myself, I have just found that this > works. I don't have time to do a CVS build of flightgear at this > moment, but if simgear+flightgear are OK with plib1.8.4, this might > probably be the best debian-kosher way of doing it (unless, of > course, you want to tweak with the plib code itself). > > Now atop of that you can build simgear+flightgear in /usr/local > > HTH, > Vassilii > P.S. As always in such cases, I have preserved a script of the > session on my system, to compare with yours if it doesn't work for > you.
It turned out to be a non-event. I downloaded all the CVS sources, including plib, and simply specified --prefix=/usr/local. I made especially sure that those libs that expect plib in /usr/lib had the correct switch to point to the plib libs at /usr/local during the configure. Everything compiled sweetly and FG runs well. Thanks all, Nick _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
