From: Michel B. <mic...@fr...> - 2008-04-27 21:44:52
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Aubrey Jaffer <ag...@al...> - Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:25:56 -0400 (EDT) >freewrl/README.html consists only of a link to >http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/faq.html. > >http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/faq.html#ChapterLinux : > > 2 Installing Freewrl On Linux and other Unix machines. > > This section attempts to answer questions about installs on Linux > and other computers. > > First, get FreeWRL. The site (FreeWRL Main Page > http://www.crc.ca"/) has links to CRC-created packages, and to > packages maintained by others. > >That link is bad; http://www.crc.ca"/ is not a valid URL. >Furthermore, http://www.crc.ca has no mention of freewrl that I can >find. So not only is the link syntactically bad, its correction >points to the wrong site. > >Back to http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/faq.html: > > The FreeWRL FAQ > Table of contents > 1. Introduction > 1.1 FreeWRL Conformance > 1.2 Maintainer and FreeWRL Contact > 1.3 Version > 1.4 Mailing list > 1.5 Contributions > 2. Installing FreeWRL on Linux and other Unix machines > 2.1 Hints on installing from source > 2.2 Hints on installing a binary distribution > 2.3 Problems running FreeWRL standalone > 2.4 Problems running FreeWRL in a Browser > 3. Installing FreeWRL on Apple OS X > 4. Installing FreeWRL on other Operating Systems > 5. MIDI and Propellerheads Reason integration > 6. FreeWRL Q and A (assumes FreeWRL installed) > >Where are the instructions for how to install from source? The only >appearance of "perl Makefile.PL; make install" is under "If you do not >have Motif ..." What am I supposed to do if I have Motif? > >The adequate documentation which formerly was included in the source >distribution has been removed; and the FAQ is obviously unchecked and >inadequate. > >Assuming that "perl Makefile.PL; make" is still the right approach for >Fedora-7 (with 2008-04-27 CVS): > > bash-3.2$ perl Makefile.PL > This install is running on a Linux based computer > SELINUX=NO > ARCH=i686 > Linux flavour: RedHat > adding -fno-stack-protector flag to compiles > WARNING: can not find FONTSDIR in the conf file, or on the > system: returning: ISNOTDEFINED > bash-3.2$ make > Makefile:805: *** missing separator. Stop. > > bash-3.2$ uname -s -r -v -m -p -i -o > Linux 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:29:10 EST 2008 i686 i686 > i386 GNU/Linux bash-3.2$ rpm -q gcc perl > gcc-4.1.2-27.fc7 > perl-5.8.8-28.fc7 > >Freewrl seems to be getting more and more broken; is its development >being abandoned? Is there some other VMRL viewer I should be using? Hi Aubrey, first I would say that a CVS checkout, like you've done, is not as *stable* as a release tarball or *better* a pre-build release can be ;). We have added support for configurable font dir a few days ago. This new configuration item is not well tested on all architectures / systems. So please, feel free to send us debug output from Perl to see if we made mistakes. And feel free to tell us where do we can expect fonts to be installed on Fedora, as you use that system. No FreeWRL is not getting more and more broken. That's just that when there are new things implemented they have to be tested everywhere and we do not have every platform at hand ;). Best regards, Michel |