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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