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- From: jk87377@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Kouhia Juhana)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: List of stuff that works under Linux
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:08:36 +0200
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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- In article <09JAN93.16268680.0012.MUSIC@MARISTB>
- KK4D%MARISTB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
- >
- >Anyway, what I had in mind was something like:
- >
- >Program Name:
- >Obtained from: (ftp site and subdirectory)
- >Brief Description: (something like database, cute shoot-em-up game)
- >Compiled Under: (Kernel version, GCC version(or whatever lang),
- > library version)
- >Special Dependencies: (stuff like needs X, or Needs CLISP and joystick)
- >Needed Changes: (Changes you had to make. This is the only part
- > I'm not sure about. Maybe I could keep a file
- > of patches, or where patches could be found.
- > If it's something small like "undef BLOCK" then that
- > could be kept here, but I don't want this list to
- > have stuff like a patch to bring kernel v0.10 up to
- > v0.99pl2 :)
-
- Excellent! I have thought about the same, and in fact I allready
- have xloadimage-info (but some odds there still) and the info
- for Prolog (taken from this newsgroup) in the purpose to put them
- to FTP site.
-
- I also almost set up a directory to nic.funet.fi:pub/OS/Linux/doc
- to compile instructions to compile programs.
- (Have to discuss about it with the actual maintainer of
- Linux-directory before making anything.)
-
-
- I have a comment to the last item in your list:
- The needed changes should not be a patch file, but similar.
-
- The patch is good place to start, though.
- It is good that changes (unclear ones) are described as
- why they are done.
- Also, if there's multiple similar changes, then it is good
- to write the change once, and to list the files where changes
- are done.
-
- This way it should be easy to compile the next release even
- there's main changes done to the code.
-
-
- How many items you have in the list, so far?
- I suggest that those people who have compiled allready programs
- to Linux will write how they did it.
- Was that too much to ask?
-
-
- Juhana Kouhia
-