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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I am still, despite these upgrades, unable to compile fbutils:
../include/util.h:25:  in passing argument 2 of 'GetNextOption(in &, const 
char
**&, const option *, unsigned int)'
make[1]: *** [fbset.o] Error 1

David compiled fbset itself - how?
What I am after is a little program that makes a modes file out of 
XF86Config and is used by fbset to change resolutions. fbconvert?

The line in util.h reads:
extern int GetNextOptino(int &argc, const char ***&argv,
                        const struct option options[],

It made the library files (.o).

I have bison and flex from SW71 - should I upgrade to SW81???

fbset uses g++.

I found a 'modes' file in here which might be all I need to make fbset 
work in up to 1152x864@89 (apart from a computer that does not crash in 
framebuffer mode).  Makefile puts in into /etc/fb/modes.

fbconvert can be used later to add higher resolutions if I can't figure 
out how to add lines manually based on what is there and XF86Config.
It is not an obvious pattern but they both support the same resolutions at 
the same hsync and vertrefresh.

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> linux-headers is specific to the kernel so I just installed make and
> binutils from Slackware 8.1
>
> > Would it help in compiling libtiff and netpbm if I upgraded the compiler
> > by replacing the SW71 packages with SW81 packages as follows?
> >
> > glibc-2.1.3 > glibc-2.2.5 and cxxlibs
> > I think libtiff source code uses C++.
> >
> > egcs-1.99.6 > gcc-2.95.3 and gcc-g++-2.95.3
> > This fixed the cpp sanity failure problem for libtiff.
> >
> > gmake       > make
> > This is small even if not needed.
> >
> > binutils    > newer binutils
> > Much larger but includes Assembler needed by netpbm.
> >
> > linuxinc    > kernel-headers
> > Would this fix the libtiff problem below?