hugs/soe source tarball for unix

C.Reinke C.Reinke@ukc.ac.uk
Thu, 07 Mar 2002 18:25:54 +0000


Hi,

just downloaded and installed the above, to see how well graphics
were supported on unix/x (long time not been there, as I work mostly
on Windows+Cygwin these days..). Works nicely now, but there were a
couple of tiny showstoppers on the way:

1. both tarballs are riddled with dos-style sources,
   which causes all kinds of strange errors during a
   Solaris configure/make attempt;

   recursively applying dos2unix to the rescue (and
   resetting execution permissions afterwards..), but if 
   it's a unix tarball, why do I have to do this?-)

2. soe assumes gmake, which may or may not be the
   default make (and the default make may not know an
   awful lot about make -C and suchlike;);

   soe make, as per Install file, does not actually
   install anything. I actually like that (just put
   the soe/graphics/.. directory in the hugspath),
   but it's slightly surprising, as the document
   suggests that things might appear in $HOME/local/..

Nice work, though. Now I've got to revive some of my projects that
were put on the pending list due to lack of portable graphics..

Claus