[AG-TECH] AccessGrid 2.0 in Slackware 9.0

[Stephen Bosch]

Hi, Ivan:

Thanks for the quick response!

Ivan R. Judson wrote:
>>I'm attempting to install the AccessGrid packages in Slackware 9.0.
>>
>>First -- I'd like to point out the folly of providing the source 
>>packages in RPM format only. That doesn't count as "source" 
>>-- that's a 
>>source RPM. Sources should be in generic tar.gz packages.
> 
> 
> We have that in our list of things to do; however you can always get the
> code from cvs as well. That would avoid the RPM issue.

I'm always nervous about pulling stuff from cvs for obvious reasons, but 
if people are having success running out of cvs then I don't have a 
problem with that :)

I would be happy to make a set of Slackware packages and contribute them 
to the project; I just need to know if there are any directory structure 
peculiarities. Ideally I'd like to make one big package that installs 
all the components.

Before I do that, though, I'll get a from-source build running properly.

> It looks to me like the configure script is detecting you have quickcam
> support. That would happen if you have /usr/local/lib/libqcam.a, or
> /dev/qcam0, or have specifically specified the directory for the code (which
> I'm guessing you didn't do).

Nope, though I did do the quick and complete install of Slackware, so 
it's possible Quickcam support is in.

> Why don't you try reconfiguring using something like --without-qcam to
> explicitly disabling this?  Does slackware include the libraries?

It might -- perhaps the install script just isn't looking in the right 
place.

There's no configure script for the vic sources, I noticed. Is that any 
different in CVS?

-Stephen-

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