On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:17:55 +0000 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said:

> On 01/06/2017 01:03 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 22:36:52 +0000 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said:
> >> 2. libxp-dev is dead, and has been replaced by x11proto-print-dev,
> >> so editing that into the list of packages works fine.
> > 
> > package names and such change over time for distros... this is why 
> > it's a wiki so as people find that things changed a bit... they can
> > alter it. :)
> 
> I wouldn't consider my knowledge enough to warrant altering even a wiki.

well i sure am not updating it ... i don;'t use debian regularly (only 2 arm
boards), and i dropped ubuntu from my world a while back... :)

> > to some extent people have to be self-starters in a little missing 
> > thing like this they can easily track down the changes that happen in
> > debian, ubuntu, arch etc. - kind of like a team effort. :)
> 
> Yep. Except that this change is probably only logged in a comment in a
> commit somewhere, so not easily discoverable. It was only by chance that
> I was trying to install another package with a dependency on libxp-dev
> that I spotted in an error message that it also had a dependency on
> x11proto-print-dev.

well you could apt-cache search libxp, xp, xprint etc. and likely find it... :)

> It worked, but I don't have any evidence that what I did was right :-)
> 
> > actually it seems debian gcc's by default turn on more warnings than
> > vanilla gcc (eg what arch uses).
> 
> That's the kind of expert knowledge we rely on people like yourself for.
> I've only ever used the gcc that comes with Ubuntu or Fedora (and before
> that, Sun's cc).
> 
> > i haven't sat down and looked into the debian warnings as they are on
> > only my arm systems and so slower builds and i dont spend all day
> > beating on them... :)
> 
> I spend my life ignoring W and only getting worried when it turns to an
> E. Seems to work so far.

leave the W's to us. :)

> >> b. remove and purge enlightenment on each system, and try to work out
> >> what files from my newly-working test system need to be copied across
> > 
> > as long as all your system support the same packages and dependencies
> 
> All 16.04 ATM. 16.10 is next up.
> 
> > you should be able to easily just tar up /usr/local or whatever
> > prefix you put e and efl in and untar on the other systems..
> 
> I didn't consciously put them anywhere: I just copied and pasted the
> commands and the script provided. The binaries will have been put
> wherever the default is, presumably /usr/local/bin because there's a
> shedload of new stuff in there now from just after 9am this morning: 61
> executables (eina_btlog eina_modinfo efl_debugd efl_debug eet eolian_gen
> evas_cserve2_client evas_cserve2_usage evas_cserve2_debug
> evas_cserve2_shm_debug eldbus-codegen eeze_mount eeze_umount
> eeze_disk_ls eeze_scanner eeze_scanner_monitor ecore_evas_convert
> eetpack embryo_cc efreetd edje_cc edje_decc edje_player edje_inspector
> edje_external_inspector edje_codegen edje_pick edje_watch emotion_test
> emotion_test-eo ethumb ethumbd ethumbd_client elementary_test
> elementary_config elementary_codegen elm_prefs_cc elementary_quicklaunch
> elementary_run eolian_cxx elua vieet eo_debug eina-bench-cmp edje_recc
> diffeet enlightenment_imc enlightenment enlightenment_start
> enlightenment_filemanager enlightenment_open enlightenment_askpass
> emixer enlightenment_remote tyq typop tyls tycat tybg tyalpha terminology)
> 
> > you should indeed wipe the existing efl and e packages from the 
> > systems to avoid conflicts (can be handled if you know what you are 
> > doing without removing the pkgs... but i just suggest removal as it's
> > simpler)
> 
> On the second system I removed the official e17 and e17-data packages
> first, logged back into xfce and did the compile, and then everything
> worked logging out and back into e. I hadn't done a purge, though, so
> the new e came back with my existing shelf. Or maybe there are other
> packages that were installed when I did my original apt-get install
> enlightenment (which I believe is a container package).
> 
> Now to try some of the laptops...
> 
> ///Peter
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