Glad to hear it worked for you.
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Original message from: scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Thanks John.
>
>I've got 0.60 compiled and it appears to be working. I use appear because I
>added some of the pentium optimizations to the Makefiles. I used the same
>optimizations that the Mandrake kernel source used.
>
>scottw
>
>On 14-Aug-99 John May wrote:
>> First of all, I know what you mean. I have to put up with about 5 WinNT
>> servers at work when 2
>> Linux boxes could be doing the job of all 5.
>>
>> Ok. WindowMaker 0.52 comes with the Mandrake distribution. You can either
>> install that if you
>> haven't already, or you can go ahead with installing the 0.60 version. To
>> install the 0.60 version,
>> you have download the tar ball and you have to compile it (you said you did
>> this). Besides the
>> 0.60 tar ball you also need a library called libPropList, I think that's what
>> its called, this also comes
>> with Mandrake as an RPM. I don't know if you need all the utilites, but I
>> installed all the C
>> Development and extra utilities, just in case and I didn't get any compile
>> errors, except for a few
>> warnings. I installed the 0.60 version and it isn't all that different, just
>> some bug fixes. If you just
>> want to check out WindowMaker, I would install the version that comes with
>> Mandrake and try that
>> out. There were a lot of configuration issues I had to go through to get the
>> 0.60 version to work.
>>
>> Some things you have to do to install 0.60:
>>
>> 1. Remove the windowmaker RPM from Linux, if installed. Also remove the
>> wmaker-conf RPM if it
>> is installed too.
>>
>> 2. untar the 0.60 tar ball, and run the configure script, can get the
>> configure options if you type:
>> ~#: ./configure --help
>>
>> The configure script will let you know if anything is missing or if something
>> isn't right. Generally if
>> the configure script gives no errors, you should be able to compile without
>> errors and install it ok.
>> If you install WindoMaker (wmaker) into /usr/local/bin, then you will have to
>> add that to your
>> path. You can edit /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc and add the line
>> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
>>
>> If you want the program in a different directory, you can edit the Makefile
>> to tell WindowMaker
>> where to install, but by default, it is installed in: /usr/local/bin
>>
>> 3. Run make
>>
>> 4. Run make install
>>
>> Building WindowMaker with Gnome and KDE support won't break anything, it just
>> adds support.
>>
>> That should get you started. I agree with you KDE reminds me too much of
>> Winblows and I want
>> to get as far away from Windblows as possible. There are a lot of things
>> that could go wrong and
>> it might get frustrating, but it's all part of learning your way around
>> linux. 8-)
>>
>>
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>> Original message from: scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>John,
>>>
>>>I would like to try WindowMaker. I have downloaded the 0.60 tar balls a
>>>while
>>>back but I don't know if Mandrake comes with all the required libs & tools.
>>>
>>>Do you really need automake, libtool, etc. or is gcc enough?
>>>
>>>Does the Makefile require modification to put WindowMaker & components into
>>>the
>>>correct directories on Mandrake? I've noticed that both RH & SuSE seem
>>>customize their rpm's of WindowMaker.
>>>
>>>When I built 0.60 the resulting config files were in text format. I
>>>followed the directions to convert to binary form so I could use the GUI
>>>config
>>>program but the conversion script gave an error. Is this normal?
>>>
>>>Does building WM with Gnome or KDE support harm WM's performance any? I
>>>assume
>>>those hooks are there to load the appropriate libs when a Gnome/KDE app is
>>>executed.
>>>
>>>I have to put up with NT and soon W2k for 8hrs at work. It would be nice to
>>>use
>>>something completely different.
>>>
>>>scottw
>>>
>
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>Date: 14-Aug-99
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