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Re: remote X applications



On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:16:18PM +0100, Paul Emsley wrote:
> >>>>> "MB" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
>     MB> Can you please try to port [mcookie]?  
> 
>         Actually, it was very easy, I changed __linux__ to __GNU__ in
>       mcookie.c and typed make.  Tada!  (I think also that prngd
>       should be used as one of the RNG, but I didn't include it). 

You might want to rethink that. __GNU__ identifies the GNU OS, in
other words GNU/Hurd. If that stuff got build it was probably
because the code marked by __linux__ was actually using features
from glibc. In that case its best to change __linux__ to __GLIBC__.

Igor

>         We also get col, cal, look, ddate, logger, chkdupexe, kill,
>       renice, arch etc.  I was surprised by how much so-called "linux"
>       stuff got built.
> 
>         I suppose that I can do some fiddling to build more stuff (but
>       fdisk is looking difficult).  But I do not understand the
>       protocol.  What if I can get it to build 80% of the binaries,
>       with the other things producing errors? Is it an all or nothing
>       situation? Shall I send the diffs here? 
> 
>         Paul.



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