Good morning. Sorry I'm somewhat busy, too -- have to get my UPSd (nut) functional. It's very GNUish, compiles with gcc, runs, but shows all zeros for the UPS (voltage, etc). Trying to get this over to SSpro, but ya that's not trivial... the tools installed in KBE might help with that a lot. Praise your laptop, it's got a built-in UPS :)
Back on topic: Seems I'm at a similar stage like you (mschuster) with getting KBE and the dependencies up on the system. Stefan pointed me to the right direction, I changed all those hard-coded /opt references, will do some more checks about that (basically install once again to a new place) and then post the diff's. This is for both KBE and the deps. This auto* beast is a very neat thing _in theory_, but in practice it adds a bunch of complexity that it was supposed to take away. In the end it solves a few portability problems but adds many more. E.g version 1.10 doesnt like 1.9 files. Ouch. E.g. it wanted to compile nut with gcc and SSpro flags. Hmmrrrgh. OK that was a typical GIGO so not a bug of auto*, but more or less it urges the programmer to make mistakes like that . Besides the critics, I can't provide an alternative for the auto* tools :), so I'll have to make myself familiar with that in the next days. Did you ever try to read a auto*-generated makefile? Forget it. They blow up by a factor of _ten_. Take for instance my problem with the NUT daemon: I need just one driver. But I can't delete all the others from the build, because it's overly complex; I have to change several config files instead of one makefile. cu, paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
