Re: [Oroborus-user] Oroborus/deskmenu under BSD

[Stefan Pfetzing]

Hi Maxime,

Am 20.08.2004 um 00:36 schrieb Maxime Guillaud:
> I recently installed Oroborus (+deskmenu) on an OpenBSD machine. I 
> would like to give you some feedback in order to make it easier...

Ah, nice ;)

> 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.

With recent autoconf and automake you can simply execute "autoreconf" 
which will generate everything needed.

> 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 !)

Well I'll change that, the next release will include a configure again, 
and xmalloc will not be longer used.

For older versions, well I guess you're right with that, so I'll fix 
that soon too and put up a directory with all sources I have access to, 
maybe there are still some tar's lost... I dunno.

> 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.

Yup, this one will go away (xmalloc.c) in the next release, since it 
gave more problems, than it helped.

> 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/

Hehe, well about 2 years ago or such I used fspanel too. There is also 
a "bigger" version of it, written in gtk and named fbpanel.

bye

Stefan

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