Hi, Van Snyder wrote: > > I use some old stuff such as xv
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I can't see XV in modern Debian That's most probably because of its license terms as "shareware". I love it much and it turns out that my Debian 11 uses a binary which i made on a SuSE machine about 10 years ago: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.4 So just for curiosity i tried what happens if i build xv on Debian 11. wget ftp://ftp.trilon.com/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz tar xzf xv-3.10a.tar.gz cd xv-3.10a view INSTALL The INSTALL file gives information about systems of the 1990s, not mentioning GNU/Linux. It falls probably under "GCC". So i simply did make This earns me the error message xv.h:123:25: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_errlist’ 123 | extern const char *sys_errlist[]; /* this too... */ | ^~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:781, from xv.h:103, from xv.c:11: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/sys_errlist.h:27:26: note: previous declaration of ‘sys_errlist’ was here 27 | extern const char *const sys_errlist[]; So i change in ./xv.h - extern const char *sys_errlist[]; /* this too... */ + extern const char *const sys_errlist[]; /* this too... */ and run again make After some ugly warnings the run ends and there exists $ ls -l ./xv -rwxr-xr-x 1 thomas thomas 1376536 Mar 12 13:46 ./xv It starts and can show its JPEG picture: ./xv jpeg/testimg.jpg & About dependencies: $ ldd ./xv linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc695b5000) libX11.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f8350da2000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8350c5e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8350a99000) libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f8350a6e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8350a68000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f83510ad000) libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f8350a63000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f835085b000) libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f8350844000) libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f8350837000) The compiler equipment is probably provided by Debian package "build-essential". I assume that i got the X stuff when the system was installed as Debian 10 with XFCE desktop. Meanwhile it is Debian 11 with fvwm. Maybe others can tell what packages are necessary to provide the above libraries and their development include headers. Have a nice day :) Thomas
