On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Berlin Brown wrote:
> I would like to play with GGI but I am having problems with KGI and I will
> never put Xwindows on my system again. Basically, I cannot compile, make
> KGI-0.9.
Sorry, but I must disappoint you. You can't run GGI on top of KGI,
because the current kgi-target of libggi must be updated from kgi-0.8
to kgi-0.9.
> I am currently running redhat linux 6.2 with a linux-2.2.14-5.0 kernel and
> that is what shows in my .configure files. I am trying to build the
> kgi-0.9-20000418 snapshot.
Steffen released a kgi-0.9-20010703 snapshot today.
> I am currently running root and thats the only user I use.
You shouldn't do that, because of security issues.
> First thing I did is tar the linux source code(big file I know)
> and then I did a gzip. Now I tarred the actual linux folder, I
> didnot tar from within the folder itself(if that means anything).
> So I now copy the tarred linux source to the kgi-0.9/Linux/
> folder and then ascend to kgi-0.9 and do a ./configure. It
> extracts the tar and then says that there is an error, the linux
> source is not found, cant do kernel make. Ok, so I play with the
> configure tool and then place the source in the right directory
> and I get configure working.
>
> - At this point ./configure works ok. S
> - Now I think I should get KGI-0.9 ready to add to the kernel.
> - I do a 'make' in the KGI-0.9 directory and it makes all kinds of
> files, in the Linux source directory
> - It takes about a hour so far, and then all the sudden I get a 'make error'
> - I get a whole page of errors about libGGI.c and then make fails.
If you want to test KGI, then you should use the 20010703 snapshot.
> I dont know what to do at this point. I guess you all know that
> libGGI is different from the 'real libGGI', I haven't even gotten
> to that point yet. Like I said earlier I am running as root, so
> where kgi puts the include files may be different for a different
> user. But when I add another user I get a lot of permission
> denied errors, hmm...
These occures, because the install-process tries to install headers
and libs into /usr/local/include/ggi/ and /usr/local/lib/ as default,
where only root has usually write-access to.
> Another thing, how do I know if the make worked correctly on
> kgi-0.9 and then what do I do after that. make install kernel?
> make modules?
Proceeding as described in the README.install should be ok.
> I know most of you are using Xwindows but somebody must have had
> this problem.
Which problem do you have with X11? If you want to use it without
problems, then you should try out PhoeniX (the X-server coming with
KGI) or XGGI.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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