On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:50:27 +0100 Mathias Meisfjordskar
<[email protected]> said:

> On 12/12/2013 01:03 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> 
> > i was just minorly annoyed at spending my time documenting how to build, and
> > documenting that the efl tree is merged, and that all the work and effort of
> > merging... results in the same old questions. i assume you hadn't even
> > looked yet. :( so i guess i was feeling a little snarky in pointing out the
> > "obvious" :)
> 
> I understand completely. The fault is all mine, I should have done 
> better research beforehand. I even struggle with the same problem at 
> work, with roles reversed. :(
> 
> > e17 was out a year ago... already... you missed that? :)
> 
> No, I just never got around to it to be honest. At some point the 
> various install scripts broke, due to the move to git, and the task of 
> manually compiling and installing all the old stable packages was hard 
> to justify in the work schedule. RHEL wouldn't be my first choice for a 
> personal distro in any case.
> 
> I took heed of your advice and started to compile EFL 1.8.2 but it 
> ultimately fails during configure due to an old version of libudev in 
> RHEL 6.5:
> 
>    configure: Start Eeze checks
>    configure: error: pkg-config missing libudev >= 148
> 
> No help from RedHat:
> 
>    # yum info libudev | grep Version
>    Version     : 147
> 
> I can't try out the RHEL 7 preview due to company policies. I see the 
> change to udev version introduced in 2013-01-03 by Gustavo Sverzut 
> Barbieri. I guess eeze-1.7.4 ought to work.

umm no. it won't work. eeze comes with the rest of efl and it's synced to work
with it... :) you have a problem there with udev that you need to find a
solution to. :)

> I will have to put this off till after the holidays due to time 
> constraints. Either way we have established that RHEL isn't the best 
> platform for e17 (or 18) and I thank you for your help. I will most 
> certainly pester you some more in the future. At least for another 14-15 
> years. :)
> 
> Cheers!
> 


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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]


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