From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Wed 08 Dec 1999 - 23:20:51 IST
OK, I must join this flamewar: Until recently I was a slackware user, and I also wondered along the lines of "why is it that you Red Hat people are so dependent upon RPMs?" But lately, I did not manage to install glibc2, so I decided to install Mandrake 6.0. And now, I know that rpms are a lot more convenient than source tarballs. I still prefer to download source tarballs, to have the more options (either compile time, or in changing the code), but I understand why many people prefer packages. About creating packages for every release, making an rpm is probably not hard, using a ready made spec file, it will be no more than adding one line to my pre-release.sh script. I choose not to do it, since if I make an rpm, why not debian package and a slackware package etc. Tony Nugent wrote that svgalib has installation problems from the source. As far as I know that is not the case. make installsharedlib should work on a clean system (with no svgalib), and should only create 2 files (and 4 symlinks to them) at /lib/libvga*. If you try and it does not work, please send to me a bug report. If you already have svgalib installed from distribution, you should probably also rm /usr/lib/libvga*, and if you want to compile svgalib programs as well, make instllheaders is also needed. -- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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