On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:46:19PM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 12:38, Chris Alvarez wrote: > > Hey guys > > > > I have a question. I always have tried to use the same Linux distro that > > is used in the CS labs at the Talmage building. I do it only to avoid > > any posibility that my labs might not run as expected due to some > > discrepancy in the libraries in my machine at home and the ones at the > > labs. Thus, I've been using Red Hat 9 for the past year. As I > > understand, the system admins are updating the distros in the labs to > > Fedora Core 2, and from what I have heard, someone had to make changes > > to the GUI of the CS 240 chess program to make it work with the > > libraries in Fedora Core 2 because of something in the Qt libraries. > > No, the chess gui as it stands would continue to work fine as long as > you had gtk 1.2.x libraries installed. Now of course, gtk2 is out and > looks a lot better, as well as is cleaner. So the chessgui was updated > to work with the newere gtk libraries. GTK 2.2 or newer should work > fine. Note that you'll need gtkmm and libsigc++ too. (see > http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net). It had nothing to do with QT libraries. > > > > > I bring this up because I have been using SuSE 9.1 Pro for a while at > > work, and I would love to use that at home instead of FC2. Do you know > > of the possibilities of library mismatches between FC2 and SuSE 9.1 Pro > > that might cause problems when trying to complete the labs for the > > 400-level classes? I'm especially concerned about the classes that deal > > with graphics and AI (450, 455, 655, 470, 478, 670, etc). I know that > > with a little of research and some time I could get the configuration of > > my computer at home to be more FC2-like and be able to work on the lab > > assignments at home, but I would like to know a bit more about that > > before I make a decision. If it would be too much of a trouble I'd just > > rather install FC2 at home and forget about it. > > Specifically with cs240, I know of no real problems that would prevent > you from running the newer chessgui on it, provided you had the right > libraries and devel libraries installed on SuSE. > > Bear in mind that when dealing with C++ programs, due to binary > incompatibilities between versions, exes compiled and linked against c++ > libraries with one version of g++ will not necesarily run with libraries > from a newer g++. Straight C programs and libraries have no such > problems. I think SuSE 9.1 has the same compiler as FC 2, so you > shouldn't have too many issues. > > I think you'll be fine. > > Michael > > > > > > Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, accusations? > > > > P.D. For those of you that are subscribed to the list and are not BYU CS > > students, the classes I mentioned use things like OpenGL(CS 455)and > > BZFlag(CS 470). I'm not sure what the other classes use for sure. > > > > Chris Alvarez > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ext. 1-3837 > > IS&T Web Applications Services > > Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions > > http://www.novell.com > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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