Hmmmm .... Does RH rally ship blackbox in the form of source code, not an
executable? I'm surprised if it does; Debian provides a binary in its .deb
package for blackbox, and Slackware has provided a binary in its .tgz file
for some time. SO before you go too far down this road, do make sure that
you actually need to do a compile on blackbox.
That said ... configure is complainign about being unable to find a working
C++ compiler. The fact that configure can find gcc but not g++ suggests that
you do not have a C++ compiler installed. RH 6.0 had separate .rpms for C
and C++ -- "egcs-1.1.2-12.i386.rpm" for C, and "egcs-c++-1.1.2-12.i386.rpm"
for C++. Depending on the installation profile you chose, you might have
installed only the C compiler ... although egcs was *supposed* to be able to
adjust its behavior (C or C++) based on the extension of the source file, I
always found that feature completely unreliable.
So ... first thing to try is adding the C++ .rpm package. But egcs has been
improving rapidly (it's now actually folded back into the main gcc
development line), so the version RH has on its 6.0 CDs may be old enough to
be buggy. Youm ight want to get the latest .rpm from RH or a mirror (e.g.,
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/).
As to which file to change to run blackbox --- that answer will have to come
from a RH user. Distributions vary so much in how they start X that my
experience, which is Debian specific, won't help you.
At 09:32 AM 1/18/00 -0200, Richard Spencer wrote [in part]:
>I'm running Red Hat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5 and I've got 72 Mb RAM. I go into
>runlevel 3 upon booting my machine, and startx gives me the KDE.
>
>I tried to install the blackbox window manager, but ran into the following
>trouble.
[details deleted]
>Do any of you gurus have advice for me? Do I need a more recent copy of GCC? Am
>I missing development libraries? Help!
>
>
>Also, assuming I do get everything set up O.K. which file(s) would I need to
>alter in order to start blackbox instead of the K Desktop? Maybe it
>would be one of the Red Hat or Sys V configuration files, no?
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