[geeks] galeon Doesn't Suck that much....

[Jochen Kunz]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:47:39PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> It sounds like what you did would better be called "porting", not "building".  :-)
;-)

> I think if you'd done much the same (though started with GNU Make, GNU
> Auto-*, etc., etc., all installed and tested and working fine) on any
> other 32-bit Unix then you'd have been fine, and may not even have had
> to do any porting at all 
Hmmm. autoconf is a big fscking POS. I can't remember how often
I had to apply the sledge hammer to ./configure to convince it 
of the existence of libfoo and libbla... That is truely no 64 
bit issue. 

> I.e. the GNOME libraries and GTK+ build fine for sparc with NetBSD libc,
> and I think it builds fine with several other non-GCC ANSI compilers
> (eg. SunPro C), and I know it builds on Solaris on sparc.
I still had to struggle with GCCisms... 

> > I still get scrambled bitmap images (like the icons in menu bars and
> > buttons, jpg's in mozilla/galeon). I suspect the DEC Xserver.
> Either that or some 64-bit problem in the graphics libraries....  :-)
Not to talk about that I have to start GNOME apps with --no-xshm.
If I do not, I get a core dump immediately...
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tsch|_,
         Jochen

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