[slackintosh-users] Re: Any testers?
- From: John B <johnb316@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:14:34 -0400
To add to my previous e-mail, I've learned from building Linux from Scratch
on my B&W PowerMac G3 that yaboot will not build correctly against
e2fsprogs-1.41.12 or later. Here is a link to the starting post of a thread
about errors encountered when building yaboot against the most recent
e2fsprogs:
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2011-January/thread.html
Fortunately, there is a patch for yaboot to address the issue raised in that
thread: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/77840/
Keep this in mind to ensure that slackintosh-current follows Papa Slack as
closely as possible with regard to tools. ;-)
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM, John B <johnb316@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Derek,
>
> I have a B&W G3 PowerMac which I'm willing to use as a testing box. The
> only request I would make when building the installer kernels is that
> support be added for using ATA and SATA hard drive adapters in PCI card
> format. I had tried to install an older version of Slackintosh on the box
> but was unable to do so, because the installer would not recognize the ACARD
> ATA hard drive adapter I have on the box. As a result, I ended up installing
> Debian 5.0.6, where the installer recognized my ACARD adapter. However, I
> would like to get rid of Debian because I don't like the way that it
> segregates development headers from the rest of the package for any given
> package.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Derek B <derekb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>
>> -Recent versions of the browsers do not compile on ppc. I use midori,
>> but maybe omitting seamonkey and firefox takes the project too far from
>> mainline Slackware
>>
>
> There is a project that has gotten Firefox 4.0 betas to build on
> PPC-equipped Macs running OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The TenFourFox project home
> page is at http://www.floodgap.com/. I would give a deeper URL, but the
> firewall at the office is blocking the site because it is a "personal page."
> Maybe some of that porter's efforts may end up working on PPC Linux? It
> would be worth trying. At worst we would be stuck with FF 3. At best, we
> could get working versions of FF4.
>
> I also think it would be worth the effort to get seamonkey to build on PPC
> Linux, but that's just me. ;-)
>
>
>>
>> -KDE (specifically, soprano) requires Java, and I don't know how to make
>> that work. ArchPPC has a HOWTO on building IcedTea JDK...has anyone
>> built KDE4 for Slackintosh?
>>
>>
> Another option for building soprano would be to use the IBM JDK for PPC
> Linux. The only issue is that IBM doesn't allow redistribution of its JDK or
> JRE (why, I don't know, but that's another issue for another time). The
> other issue is whether the JRE from the JDK is a build-time or run-time
> dependency.
>
>
>> -A recent OpenOffice is available for PPC, but LibreOffice is not.
>> Slackware does not include either, of course, so maybe it doesn't
>> matter.
>>
>>
> I would think that LibreOffice should build on PPC Linux, since there are
> builds of it for Mac OS X on PPC.
>
> Just my $0.02,
> John
>
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