[Splashy-devel] Re: Fwd: libdirectfb ft2.a

[Luis M]

Hello,

Thanks for all your help Guillem.

On 2/26/06, Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
[snip]
>
> I'm only talking about Debian, as I don't really know what they have
> done to those packages in Ubuntu. The latest version in sid is
> 0.9.22-8, which supposedly is broken. The one I've just uploaded into
> Debian is 0.9.24-1, which is stuck in the NEW queue and is going to
> experimental. You can find the same packages I uploaded in:
>
>         <http://people.debian.org/~guillem/directfb/>
>
> Please test them and report back. I'll be sending a mail to all
> reverse dependency packages once it gets out of NEW, to coordindate
> the transition to the new lib.

I did some experimental 0.9.24 package and they had the same problem
that 0.9.22 had. I have no idea what the ubuntu guys did to fix the
0.9.22 package. But, it works now.
[snip]
> I've fixed the .o to .a in the directfb-config. But not the all alias,
> I'll fix that in next upload.

Ok

[snip]
> Yes, there's some parts of the build system which are broken on the
> upstream sources...

I fired up an email to directfb-users. This one talking about what I
did to get things to work. Let's hope somebody gets interested in the
directfb-config script i did and get it from alioth's svn.
[snip]
> Once everything works properly I'll start feeding those patches to the
> directfb upstream.

Good. They will definitely give you more weight when you report things
back upstream.

regards,

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