Re: [cdebconf] slang frontend

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:30:14PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote:
[...]
> Build cdebconf-udeb as usual, and then, in the build dir
> 
> fakeroot make TYPE=cdrom # net should work too I suppose
> sudo make TYPE=cdrom floppy_image
> 
> I then built a CD that boots from that image, and it worked *shrug*

Thanks for the detailed instructions, but it does not work for me :(
  $ find tmp/cdrom/tree -name \*slang\*
  tmp/cdrom/tree/usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/slang.so
  $ ldd tmp/cdrom/tree/usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/slang.so
        libslang.so.1-UTF8 => /lib/libslang.so.1-UTF8 (0x40012000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40074000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40187000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401a8000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
There is no tmp/cdrom/tree/usr/lib/libslang.so.1-UTF8 file

> > > that, although I think dialog looks better, but because we are lax about
> > > redirecting output from programs we run, *everything* should probably go
> > > to /var/log/messages or something.
> > 
> > Indeed, but in another file, e.g. /var/log/install.log
> 
> Works for me, as long as it doesn't interfer with the frontend it can go
> wherever it wants :-)

Another idea: could main-menu redirect stderr to this file?

Denis