[Oroborus-user] Oroborus/deskmenu under BSD

[Maxime Guillaud]

Hi Stefan, Hi list,

I recently installed Oroborus (+deskmenu) on an OpenBSD machine. I would 
like to give you some feedback in order to make it easier...

I downloaded version 2.0.13-1 and tried to install it. Unfortunately, it 
seems that the "configure" file is not included, and I'm not proficient 
enough in autoconf to generate it myself.
Fortunately, version 2.0.12 works good enough for me so I installed this 
one. This is my second remark : could you make older versions of the 
source available on the Oroborus website ? Many people rely on older 
version for various reasons (because something changed and they don't 
like it, because they don't want to deal with the new dependencies, 
because they install from ports under xBSD and the port has not been 
updated yet... actually that's where I found version 2.0.12 : the 
FreeBSD port !)

Ok, so now everything is fine with Oroborus. I went on and installed 
deskmenu, which also had some compilation problems : it seems that the 
error() function is not available under BSD (maybe it's a Linux thing 
?). So I slightly patched the file xmalloc.c in order to reimplement 
error().
I attach the patch.

Now I'm perfectly happy with Oroborus+Deskmenu+fspanel. For those who 
don't know fspanel, I think that it's the perfect complement to 
Oroborus, so check it out : http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/

Hope all this helps :-)
Maxime

diff deskmenu-1.4.0/src/xmalloc.c deskmenu-1.4.0-patched/src/xmalloc.c
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> #include <stdio.h>
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< #include "error.h"
< 
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< #if __STDC__ && (HAVE_VPRINTF || HAVE_DOPRNT)
< void error (int, int, const char *, ...);
< #else
< void error ();
< #endif
---
> static void
> error (int exit_status, const char *mode, const char *message)
> {
>   fprintf (stderr, "oroborus: %s: %s.\n", mode, message);
> 
>   if (exit_status >= 0)
>     exit (exit_status);
> }