John, Mr. TurboVNC here. TurboVNC is still actively supported. I plan to try to move TurboVNC customers to TigerVNC in the long term, but not until I can build "compatible" packages for TigerVNC that work on platforms like RHEL. There is also still about a 30-40% performance lag with TigerVNC vs. TurboVNC that needs to be addressed. Currently, I am seeking financial sponsorship for both efforts. Otherwise, it will be more of a long-term proposition.
To answer your specific questions below, the current TigerVNC RPM's piggyback off of the X server that is installed on the system. Thus, you can't build the RPM unless you have a very recent distro of Linux. To build on an older version of Linux requires building a monolithic version of Xvnc which embeds an older version of the Xorg source. A preliminary attempt at a script to build such a version of Xvnc is in the SVN trunk (release/build-compat-linux). It works, but I'm not totally happy with it yet. John Foley wrote: > Tiger users - I hope this isn't too stupid a question, but I need > some advice from your experiences.... > > I'd really like to switch our group of users to TigerVNC server > from TurboVNC server (for reasons I won't bore you with). I have an > older version of Tiger running here now, but it suffers from the > "no key repeating" problem, so I need to move to a version that's > new enough to incorporate the fix for this. > > The problem is that these newer versions are all being built on > fedora 11 and higher, which uses a GLIBC of 2.7 - but my RHELv5.2 > machines that I must use have a GLIBC of 2.5, so simply downloading > the rpms that "atkac" builds won't work for me :( > > I can see and download the source for these newer builds, so I could > try to build the TigerVNC server on one of my RHELv5.2 machines - > but I'll admit that I'm stumped on exactly how to accomplish > this... > > So, my questions are : > > 1) anybody out there successfully built a "recent" version of TigerVNC > server on RHELv5.2 ? Willing to share ? :) > > 2) the downloaded/extracted source files appear to have an rpm .spec > file in them - so is the build as "simple" as just running rpm > using that .spec file ? Can anyone offer any suggestions and/or > advice on doing the VNCserver build that might help me out ? > > Thanks for any thoughts / suggestions -- > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Tigervnc-users mailing list > Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
