Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[technosaurus]

To compile statically against dietlibc

[jikkypeter]

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[Aitch]

jikkypeter

What is the point of that??

Are you a google spammer? - they don't need you....

Aitch

[technosaurus]

Here is a fairly simple way to compile other programs that makes them easily configurable as a RoxApp

run ./configure --help
you should see a list that includes --prefix= , --bindir= etc...
you will want to set all of these to /usr/local/apps/$MY_PROGRAM_NAME

here is an example:

[phogi]

I'm attempting to follow the directions in the first method. My goal is to implement a driver I found for my synaptics touchpad that is on my laptop. The issue is erratic pointer behavior, and random hangs. Makes it all quite difficult to use (so I just plugged in a usb mouse). But, this driver supposedly will take care of those problems.

I'm running puppy 4.3.1 on a Compaq presario V5000.

So, everything goes fine until I get to the command line step. I type in ./configure, it tells me something like 'no such file.'

I'm assuming that some dependency is not filled for the command line program to work, or the directions I'm following are for a model of command line usage which is no longer in effect.

So, what do I need to do to make it work?

[technosaurus]

there should be a readme file of some kind... sometimes you need to run ./autogen.sh to build ./configure ... others require editing the make files, others now use waf instead - either way, it should be in the documentation - please read it

synaptics is already supported (mine is working) so you shouldn't need to build a "driver" I think jemimah has already built flsynclient, which may work to configure it

kernel drivers have a whole different build process than software - there is a whole category in additional software dedicated to drivers

[chrome307]

Is it possible to combine 3 pet files eg.

spellcheck_addon.pet
gimme-2.2.3.pet
pan-0.1.3.2.pet

Into a single Pet application?

[technosaurus]

yes just use pet2tgz and then tar -xf to expand them all ... then copy the contents all into 1 tree (in appropriately named folder)

[chrome307]

Thanks for getting back to me regarding this

Once I have expanded all the files and place them into a 'single' folder, is my next step to create a 'new' pet file with all the contents?

[UPDATE]





I have created the directory with all the contents, then I used:

[technosaurus]

Another tip
If you are running low on space you can download tarballs and expand them at the same time. (chromium's bootstrap tarball is over 800mb)

for .tar.gz (change the "z" as applicable to your compression type)
wget -q -O - <url of tarball> |tar -xz

Bonus tip
here are a couple of flags to (try to) add to CXXFLAGS for C++ based compiles:
-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
(they don't always both work but can save 5-10% of total compiled size)

[enhu]

where else can i get tra.gz files that fit to puppy besides what was given http://packages.debian.org/source/etch

[technosaurus]

[technosaurus]

I tracked down a bunch of sites that will produce a tarball of the latest development code directly from version control- over 4000 projects from gnu.org,kernel.org & repo.or.cz (+uclibc,uclibc++,busybox & buildroot) - pretty much all the major projects that support this function.

hopefully this reduces your search time trying to get the latest code.

[enhu]

cant seem to find tar.gz file in http://packages.debian.org/source/etch

where else can i see some?

[technosaurus]

Etch is no longer supported in the package search - use lenny now (or squeeze or sid)
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

or http://t2-project.org/packages/

fallback is still google