Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-31 Thread M. Tavasti
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS. Make sure to keep the old 3, just in case anything goes wrong, I > didn't the first time, something went wrong, so I tried to fix it and > messed up my system even more. At the end I decided to reinstall the > system, because it was the fastest way o

gs, wmaker debs? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?)

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to install XFree 4.0 on my potato machine, are there debs >available yet, or not too far off ? I couldn't even see 4.0 ones in Woody. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/~branden/plans.txt. It seems like the move to the

Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
There aren't any deb (yet), but you can compile the sources yourself, works fine here! Ron Rademaker PS. Make sure to keep the old 3, just in case anything goes wrong, I didn't the first time, something went wrong, so I tried to fix it and messed up my system even more. At the end I decided to re

XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-23 Thread James Sleeman
I would like to install XFree 4.0 on my potato machine, are there debs available yet, or not too far off ? I couldn't even see 4.0 ones in Woody. Thanks James Sleeman

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-16 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Branden, On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 10:32:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Hmm. I am using the following patch, which I got from slashdot of all > places: > > --- xc/config/makedepend/cppsetup.c.origSun Mar 12 15:47:41 2000 > +++ xc/config/makedepend/cppsetup.c Sun Mar 12 15:

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread dan
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:18:09AM +0100, Sven LUTHER generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Hello, > > Nice to hear about the future 4.0 plan. i agree with most of what you propose. > > I have a question conerning the 3D stuff. > > Glx will be included in XF 4.0, but this is a point that will mos

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, Nice to hear about the future 4.0 plan. i agree with most of what you propose. I have a question conerning the 3D stuff. Glx will be included in XF 4.0, but this is a point that will most assuredly confuse lots of people. In fact, (if i understood this issue correctly, which i am still

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:06:19PM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: > the problem is with curses.h in libncurses5-dev. it redefines ERR and > as such it conflicts with the definition from the glibc headers. this > was the same problem noticed in dpkg 1.6.10. i just commented out the > redefinition of ERR

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Alex Romosan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [snip] > > [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting > > to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's > > patches, #130 or #131, is probably the c

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread markm
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [snip] > [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting > to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's > patches, #130 or #131, is probably the culprit since I think these are the >

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
Today's news flash: omitted words can really change the meaning of a sentence. On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > They're not available yet, so I am sending this message to apprise Debian > users my fellow developers of the situation. ...users AND my fellow develo

So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
I have been getting a fair amount of mail about this so I thought I would mail two of the most widely-read lists Debian has. Hopefully folks will agree with me that XFree86 4.0 support has ramifications for both users and developers. I don't subscribe to -user, so I will not see replies posted to