Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I've failed classifying this mix as "bug", and in the same time it is a developers' issue.
I've downloaded Mountapp (from dockapps.org) and I was decided to compile it. But it fails since it does not find the libWINGs on my system; and the path and -lWINGs flag is given by the existing get-wings-flags. I've searched for the WINGs lib on my system and failed finding it... I believed WPrefs.app used it, but a ldd says I was wrong. Of course I thought the culprit was my system vendor (Mandriva 2009), since I've installed Window Maker through the package manager... I've searched in the repositories for libWINGs, but it is not there. Then, I've pointed my browser to www.windowmaker.info in order to download the last version from source and compile it. I've downloaded the .tar.bz2 from http://windowmaker.info/pub/source/release/ I am quite used to do the classical ./configure and make passages, so I did the first without further reading, tuned up (--prefix=/usr --with-gnustepdir=/usr/GNUstep/Applications) and noticed the first oddness: Installation path for WPrefs.app : /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications Ok, time to take a look at the files you mandatorily suggest to read? I did it, and found the option --with-appspath, which does not appear from ./configure --help; ok I can live with WPrefs.app into Local/Applications, it's not so important (a look into the configure script told me that if the GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT is set, the gnustepdir option is overridden; which is a bad behaviour: a user who knows what to put as non-default gnustep dir should be left to his/her choices) Anyway, I was only interested in reinstalling properly Window Maker, even though the installed version is 0.92.0 as the one I downloaded; and all because of the absence of the libWINGs in my distro... After a good end for ./configure, it's time to do the make. I did. And this is what I had as output... x86_specific.c: In function ‘x86_mmx_TrueColor_32_to_16’: x86_specific.c:107: error: can't find a register in class ‘GENERAL_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’ x86_specific.c:107: error: ‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints make[2]: *** [x86_specific.lo] Error 1 Why?! At this point I've no clue how to make the thing work, and where on my system is the problem... $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.3.2 (the rest of configure says everything's ok, but if needed I can send it) Because of the x86_mmx_*, I've tried to see if there's an option to disable mmx support (no, since it is a test done over ability of the compiler, and the compiler and processor can, so why should I change the configure to allow me to disable mmx?) I suppose you also need to update those files we *must* read, since they still have windowmaker.org instead of windowmaker.info. And you need also fixing some problems with the site, like dead links: http://www.windowmaker.info/src/BUGS http://windowmaker.info/cgi-bin/bugs http://www.windowmaker.info/src/NEWS http://www.windowmaker.info/src/INSTALL from http://www.windowmaker.info/documentation.php?show=basics (which also contains the false sentence "the WPrefs installation directory can be specified by using --with-appspath=DIR") And of course if you would like to have a simple-click feedback, should fix the mispelled link: http://windomwaker.info/feedback.php -- Mauro Panigada http://www.capo-nord.org/soci/xmav http://del.icio.us/miyamotomusashi Associazione Capo Nord http://www.capo-nord.org Risorse TeX http://www.tug.org http://www.guit.sssup.it/ FSF+GNU http://www.fsf.org http://www.gnu.org "And there's a mighty judgment coming But I may be wrong" -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
