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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> It might be that this svga links is bigger than the X version we
> already have but if you have tried the X version with vga16 X server
> as only possibility you will probably be very interested in a svga
> version with 256 colors. But Sindi I do not understand what is it with
> the graphic it will not show images ore what is it?

This links2 for GLIBC 2.2.5 with support for svgalib but not X is SMALLER 
than Steven's X version for libc5 X, but has dependencies.  Lynx has the 
same dependencies but Karolis compiled them into his uclibc version.
netpbm uses these dependencies too (to convert from tiff, jpeg, png to 
ppm).

Steven's X version won't work in BL2 (wrong libX11 and no svgalib 
support).  My version will work in BL2 or BL3 if you add svgalib (which 
can be used with kernel 2.2 and does not use X).

If Steven wanted to compile a version with support for X and svgalib and 
gpm everyone could use it in both BLs.  SSL support would be helpful.  I 
don't think any of us list members would use the Japanese characters. 
Framebuffer appears to be broken on all my riva cards (I get a blue 
screen).  I don't know what directfb or atheos are.
version pre28 still has javascript.

I don't have the files needed to compile with gpm or x (.a libraries?).


> /Mikkel
> > > > Compiled to use only svgalib (not x) in graphical mode,
> > > > and has a bunch of dependencies (libvga, libpng12,
> > > > libjpeg, libtiff, libbz2, libz, glibc 2.2.5).
> > > > No support for X or gpm mouse.
> > > > javascript was dropped

> > To compile openssl I may need only the perl binary, not the huge package
> > (more binaries, libraries, man, doc).

I copied over perl5.6.0 from Slackware 7.1 and symlinked perl5 and perl.
./config worked but make told me I needed /usr/lib/perl*/*/strict.pm.
I copied over strict.pm from /usr/lib/perl5 (on another computer where I 
had Perl5 installed) to /usr/lib/perl5, along with all the other .pm files 
(to save time but not space).  perl5 is 660K, the .pm files are 730K.
The entire package is much much larger than this (6.2MB compressed!).

openssl compiled (quickly).  I see a 340K libssl.a and a 2MB libcrypto.a 
with today's date.  I will try to compile statically with those two files 
in /usr/lib rather than doing a 'make install'

Make install installs to /usr/local/ssl as OPENSSLDIR (which is where 
cert.pem for lynx went).  I have /usr/lib/libssl.so*  so I put libssl.a 
and libcrypt.a in /usr/lib and pointed the compiler there too.

./configure --enable-graphics --without-gpm --with-ssl=/usr/lib 
--without-x (or fb directfb pmshell or atheos).  No complaints.

checking for OpenSSL... no

Back later.

Sindi