Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:31:46 +0200 > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > The concept of free software has become a myth :( >> >> There is always Gentoo if libraries you consider useless bother you. >> Binary distributions tend to enable all possibly useful features. >> >> Cheers, >> Sven > > Gentoo isn't the only alternative. Just in case Jessie turns out to be > unworkable for me when it goes stable, last night I made a very nice > OpenBSD desktop computer that had most of what somebody could want on a > desktop. However, try as I might, I couldn't get Sigil to compile on > OpenBSD, and my business depends on Sigil for the next year or so. > > So what I'm now considering, as an escape route if systemd causes > everything to go to hell in a handbasket (and we don't know whether > that will happen), is that my main desktop is OpenBSD, with a virtual > machine running Debian or Ubuntu in a VM in order to use Sigil and > anything else I can't get to work on OpenBSD. > > I feel much better now that I know I have a Plan B.
There is a FreeBSD port listed for sigil. If you don't want to run FreeBSD, you could at least look at what their port does to get it to compile. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87d2b7h191.fsf@elk.localnet
