Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> Why didn't you poke me a few days ago when I had announced I was going to >> add-in gdm (together with mrxvt, freeglut, openmotif and icewm)? >> > > I didn't see it until today when catching up on the mail from this weekend. >
I need to upload a new version of that SPARC-binary-packages tarball (before the src and x64/x86 pkgs), because I found two bugs (plus a consideration/question) : SUNWxork-sparc-stop-a-hack: "/bin/kbd -i" needed to be added to postinstall and postremove for the changes to take effect SUNWxorg-cfg: At first I had the Xorg-versions of libXaw (for use by xorgcfg) inside SUNWxorg-clientlibs. However, recently I noticed the redundance, because the entries were also present in SUNWxorg-cfg already. So I went ahead and commented out the corresponding entries in SUNWxorg-clientlibs's prototype file. Beng, for some reason (probably wrong or missing !search directive in SUNWxorg-cfg's prototype), SUNWxorg-cfg does not properly install them. So they would be missing on a target host. A further problem is, that the graphical part of xorgcfg sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Whether xfs is running or not. A problem related to Xorg's libXaw libXt, needs further investigation. SUNWxorg-gdm: I still like the idea of having gdm tightly bundled with FOX, because it may be used for any arbitrary desktop environment or window manager, not exclusively for gnome. I see it now, and wonder why I never noticed: SUNWgnome-display-mgr and SUNWgnome-display-mgr-root are available on any full SXCR install and make gdm readily usable already, which is cool. Yes, but there is one issue: /usr/openwin/lib is expected to be present, and to be populated with (un-re-distributable?) legacy libraries. So for the distros we depend on a *self*-hosted FOX, as Moinak has pointed out over a month ago. So for Indiana, BeleniX, SchilliX, Nextenda, MartUX && Co. we might need our own version of gdm. But those openwin/lib related questions are a topic for for themselves ... The first step was making FOX usable *with* openwin present (as on SXCR), the self-hosting stuff has the highest priority *now*. -- %martin
