Re: Report on X

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@aero.iitm.ernet.in>]

hi,

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

    Marcus> You should list the missing files. Maybe they are about
    Marcus> features the hurd doesn't have.

    Marcus> Usually, such one time hacks are terrible wrong, and don't
    Marcus> bring us further.  In the ideal case, you should get the
    Marcus> python source, build it, ands ee why it doesn't include
    Marcus> those headers. Yes, I know it takes more time. What do you
    Marcus> think I am doing two years long? The advantage is that
    Marcus> your work isn't lost, but a real contribution.

	Yes, I understand, but this was my first try.  Not my last. :)
I just wanted you to know that I was working on it and that is what
happened.

    >> (c) I ran X as root with blackbox as the wm and decided to try
    >> using X for a while.  I tried to compile mesa.  I did this
    >> under X.  It was crazy.  I had 4 xterms running and a remote
<snip>
    >> too early in the morning.

    Marcus> Welcome in the world of the Hurd :) Of course there is
    Marcus> some leak, as I mentioned in my original mail. How much
    Marcus> RAM do you have?

	64M + 128M swap - the 128M swap was made for future upgrades
to 128 MB RAM. :)

    Marcus> You can check the state of processes with "ps -F hurd-long
    Marcus> -x -a" Check the line with pflocal when running X! It has
    Marcus> a lot of threads, and a highe memory usage.
 
    >> (d) The tcl and tk packages dont ship with the respective
    >> libraries. Under linux they do.  For instance the package tk8.0
    >> under linux contains the file /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so.1 but there
    >> is no such file in the hurd package.  Similar is the case for
    >> the tcl8.0 package.  Because of this python-tk doesnt work.  I
    >> have downloaded the soruces and will see if a rebuild fixes
    >> this.

    Marcus> There are some soname'ing issues. Some versions of libtool
    Marcus> are broken, for example. I have to look at tcl/tk how it
    Marcus> names libraries. In general, we want the same names as in
    Marcus> linux, just for simplicity.

	Ok.  I will also try to compile the packages and let you know
if I have problems.

thanks,
prabhu