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Subject: Re: [FreeNX-kNX] freenx-client 0.9 feedback
From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists () hughesjr ! com>
Date: 2008-04-12 17:38:38
Message-ID: 4800F39E.3090905 () hughesjr ! com
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Seb James wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 12:08 +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> some feedback from trying to build freenx-client 0.9 release:
>
> Thanks for the feedback Dirk!
>
>> a) it does not build with gcc 4.3. see attached patch
>>
>> b) qtnx can still not install itself. see other attached patch
>>
>> c) as qtnx needs pkgconfig to resolve the libnxcl, which is built in the other
>> subdir, I think it would cause less pain for the packagers of those two sub
>> directory would be separated in different tarballs. They don't share a common
>> build system anyway.
>>
>> d) the source code claims to be GPL v2+. GPL however requires to ship a GPL
>> license in a file named COPYING as part of the package. this doesn't seem to
>> be the case. Please clarify the actual license of the code. Also, list of
>> authors etc is missing as well, but I fetched them from the actual source
>> file.
>
> An oversight. The COPYING file should be added.
>
>> e) the autoconf/automake requires of libnxcl are extremely high, while it
>> seems to build just fine with older version of autotools, once those are
>> fixed. Is there a reason for that? this is a problem for older distributions.
>
> These were set to whatever autotools I was working with at the time -
> possible Ubuntu 6.06. I would have not objections to reducing these to
> the minimum that would work.
I lowered them to this for CentOS5:
AC_PREREQ(2.59)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9.6 foreign])
Everything seems to work OK at this level for me on i386 and x86_64 arches.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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