On Tue, 08 Nov 2011, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > I have got rid of quite a few packages so maybe I will have some more time > for vnc in the future. The problem with vnc is that it takes so damn long > time to build... even with ccache? ;) does it parallelize ok?
> However last time I tried (it is quite some time though) I did not get the
> server part to work and things crashed very often, at least when
> using the wrapper scripts making things convenient. But if you have
> successfully
> get things to work well I'm interested in what version you used and how
> you built it.
I went lazy way -- just grabbed binary tarball from their website which
installs under /opt. For the 3rd day of intensive use -- not a single
complaint
I also got some binary deb build notes from Antoine Martin -- may be they
would have some interesting bit so citing below (haven't looked through them
yet)
#magic to set DISTRIB_CODENAME
DISTRIB_CODENAME="wheezy"
VNC_VERSION="1.0.90-r4628"
ARCH=`uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/' | sed 's/i686/i386/'`
tar -zxvf tigervnc-${VNC_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd tigervnc-${VNC_VERSION}/
#CLIENT:
autoreconf -fiv
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
cd unix
rm -fr deb
cp vncviewer/vncviewer deb/usr/bin/
gzip -c vncviewer/vncviewer.man > deb/usr/share/man/man1/vncviewer.1.gz
mkdir -p deb/DEBIAN
cp tigervnc-viewer-${VNC_VERSION}.dsc deb/DEBIAN/control
cp vncviewer/vncviewer deb/usr/bin/
gzip -c vncviewer/vncviewer.man > deb/usr/share/man/man1/vncviewer.1.gz
mkdir -p deb/DEBIAN
cp tigervnc-viewer-${VNC_VERSION}.dsc deb/DEBIAN/control
SIZE=`du -sm deb | awk '{print $1}'`
echo "Architecture: ${ARCH}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
#echo "Distribution: ${DISTRIB_CODENAME}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
echo "Installed-Size: ${SIZE}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
echo "Version: ${VNC_VERSION}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
#echo "Filename: ${PKG_FILE_PATH}/${PKG}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
echo "" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
sed "s/DISTRIBUTION/${DISTRIB_CODENAME}/g" <
./tigervnc-viewer-${VNC_VERSION}.changelog > deb/DEBIAN/changelog
echo "-- Antoine Martin <[email protected]> `date -R`" >>
deb/DEBIAN/changelog
echo "" >> deb/DEBIAN/changelog
PKG="tigervnc-viewer-${VNC_VERSION}.${ARCH}.deb"
dpkg -b deb ${PKG}
#SERVER deb:
./build-xorg-7.4 init
./build-xorg -version 7.4 build --enable-glx --enable-glx-tls
--disable-config-hal --disable-config-udev
--with-default-font-path=/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
rm -fr deb
mkdir -p "deb/usr/share/man/man1"
mkdir -p "deb/usr/bin"
gzip -c "./xserver/hw/vnc/Xvnc.man" > "deb/usr/share/man/man1/Xvnc.1.gz"
for vnc_file in vncconfig vncserver x0vncserver vncpasswd; do
VNC_BIN="${vnc_file}/${vnc_file}"
if [ ! -e "${VNC_BIN}" ]; then
VNC_BIN="./${vnc_file}"
if [ ! -e "${VNC_BIN}" ]; then
echo "Error: could not find ${vnc_file}"
exit 1
fi
fi
cp "${VNC_BIN}" "deb/usr/bin/"
gzip -c "${VNC_BIN}.man" > "deb/usr/share/man/man1/${vnc_file}.1.gz"
done
mkdir -p deb/DEBIAN
cp tigervnc-server-${VNC_VERSION}.dsc deb/DEBIAN/control
SIZE=`du -sm deb | awk '{print $1}'`
echo "Architecture: ${ARCH}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
#echo "Distribution: ${DISTRIB_CODENAME}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
echo "Installed-Size: ${SIZE}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
echo "Version: ${FULL_VERSION}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
#echo "Filename: ${PKG_FILE_PATH}/${PKG}" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
echo "" >> deb/DEBIAN/control
sed "s/DISTRIBUTION/${DISTRIB_CODENAME}/g" <
./tigervnc-server-${VNC_VERSION}.changelog > deb/DEBIAN/changelog
echo "-- Antoine Martin <[email protected]> `date -R`" >>
deb/DEBIAN/changelog
echo "" >> deb/DEBIAN/changelog
PKG="tigervnc-server-${FULL_VERSION}.${ARCH}.deb"
dpkg -b deb ${PKG}
> PS. I'm trying to step down as Debian maintainer. Maintaining about 80
> packages as I did in the past at the same time as a full time work and
> a side buisness has been too much. :-)
> DS.
yeah -- 80 alone sounds a bit too much ;)
Thanks for all your work you have done though!
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