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.
Well, what caused this strong disappointment? X as such is not bad,
given it
is widely used for years now...
> Basically, I cannot compile, make
> 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.
Please try the new snapshot released today. However, you should be aware
it is still in development state and there are know areas where it is
likely
to give you probably mode trouble than somewhat well configured XFree
3.3.3
system.
Also the Permedia2 is the only supported chipset at the moment.
> I am currently running root and thats the only user I use.
This has nothing to do with Xwindows, and I strongly recommend you
change
this a soon as you can.
> 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.
The file need to be gzipped, so you may need to do
bunzip2 linux-v.e.r.tar.bz2
gzip linux-v.e.r.tar
> - 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.
the libGGI tree in the kgi-0.9 snapshot is broken. Please refer to
the installation section of kgi-0.9/README.install what to do in what
order.
> 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...
>
> 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?
Have you read the README.install file, section "installation" already?
If not, please do first, and if so, please let me know where it is
confusing to you.
Steffen
PS: Please direct any further questions about KGI to one of the KGI
development
lists. (See http://www.kgi-project.org, Developer Resources/Mailing
Lists)
