2009/4/30 "C. Bergstr?m" <cbergstrom at netsyncro.com>: > Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> ?I have been upto a bunch of activities lately. One is playing with the >>> OSUNIX binaries and secondly building latest packages for BeleniX 0.8. >>> >>> For OSUNIX I have got a booting ISO that lands you in single-user >>> prompt and I am debugging the other service startup issues. These fixes >>> eventually go into pkgcore. >>> >>> For BeleniX 0.8 these are the things that have happened till date: >>> >>> * Pulled a snapshot of JDS spec files trunk and build them to get >>> ?the current Gtk/Glib/Gnome 2.26 packages. Some of these are >>> ?slightly modified for BeleniX. This also gets us the ZFS auto- >>> ?snapshot and Time Slider in Nautilus. However this needs to be >>> ?ported to KDE 4 as well. Anyone upto the task ? >>> >> >> Would PyQT be OK to use ? I know that you have pushed pyqt into the repo >> :) >> > > It should integrate with Konqueror so if you can do that with PyQT and save > time why not. ?I suspect though that it will need to be implemented in c++ > though. >> >> >>> >>> * Firefox stable has been updated to 3.0.8 while 3.5B1 is available in >>> ?pkg.belenix.org trunk. The 3.5B1 build contains some config tweaks >>> ?to boost performance like HTTP 1.1 pipelining enabled. >>> >>> * Gcc 4.4 final release is now available in trunk. >>> >>> * Lots of other new and updated packages like audio/video stuff, BOOST, >>> ?experimental Webkit etc. 64Bit versions of many libraries have been >>> ?added (including BOOST and Webkit). All the C++ stuff including a few >>> ?in Gnome (gtkmm, cairomm) are built using the new Gcc 4.4. >>> >>> >> >> The experimental Webkit is something that sounds really exciting. >> >> It's also nice to know that you've used GCC 4.4 for all the c++ stuff. >> This should result in some binaries that need a lot of testing ! >> >> > > I concur! ?I can't express how much of a memory hog FF is and I'd like to > get away from it. ?If you end up needing to debug webkit I'd highly > recommend midori since it's so small and light.
FF still has to be built with Studio. Building FF with Gcc is an unsupported configuration on Solaris. I was able to get FF 2.0 built with Gcc 3.4.3 long back but it had numerous problems. I also built some of the updated GNOME 2.26 pieces that depend on Webkit like the help viewer. I could execute yelp and HTML was rendered successfully. >>> >>> * Latest Nvidia driver is available in pkg.belenix.org trunk. >>> >>> There are more packages to be added before we can get KDE 4.2 to >>> build. >>> >>> >> >> I await more news on this :) >> >> It looks like we'll all need a major bout of testing before we >> announce 0.8 as final. Let me know once you spin up an ISO. >> >> > > This is great work Moinak.. (now only if you'd quit breaking my zones.. ;) > > For gcc did you run make test? ?Boost is a pretty well known c++ killer so > if that built correctly we're probably not doing too bad. Did not run make test but saw a make test report on the gcc-testresults list for 4.4.0 and it was encouraging. I only had one template issue when building BOOST 1.36 with the GCC4.4 pre-release snapshot. That was a known bug that went away when I moved to BOOST 1.38 and GCC4.4 final release. I am going to fix libzonecfg soon. However Gcc 4.4.0 does not build if I enable java language support. It appears to be a broken Makefile issue. > > I've been fighting with Icedtea6 all week (OpenJDK6 with patches to remove > the need for closed bins) ?If you'd like to toss that in for 0.8 I'd be > happy to help. ?It *just* finished bootstrapping and I have a few more > things to debug to get it working correctly. > This is nice. It can be put in the repository. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
