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How did things work out for you?? :)
-=> Alan Ianson wrote to Andy Alt <=-
>> I have always had syncterm installed. It has always built and run for
>> me even on the console but I haven`t had success building syncterm here
>> without xorg and friends.
> On your LFS system?
AI> Yes, it wouldn`t build for me and I was short of time then to have a
AI> closer look.
> What if you do this? (or is this what you did?)
> Download syncterm-1.1-src.tgz from the official project page
> Extract the source
> From the root of the source directory, cd to `src/syncterm`
> enter in `make RELEASE=1
AI> Yes, that`s the way I have always built syncterm. Usually I also do
AI> "sudo make install" when make is done and I am good to go.
> That should build the syncterm binary in
> src/syncterm/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release
AI> Yes. When I build syncterm an a machine with out xorg or SDL it runs
AI> fine from the console. It doesn`t have any desktop support (which is
AI> also nice) but works fine from the console.
> For me, it`s not linking to any xorg or SDL2 libs:
> ldd syncterm
> linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe9cfce000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f550d9b8000)
> libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f550d9b3000)
> libncursesw.so.6 => /lib64/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f550d975000)
> libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f550d944000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f550d7fc000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f550d7db000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f550d5fa000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f550d9cf000)
> Though I didn`t do that in LFS, I did it in the slackware-build-essential
> docker container
>(
https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/andy5995/slackware-build-essential/g
> neral)
AI> I wish I would have dug in a bit more but I`ll do that on the next go
AI> around.
>> I have xorg and friends installed now so I`m sure I can get it done but
>> minicom is working for me anyway.
> Nice to hear!
AI> Yep, I like minicom. I am about to get xmms installed. It needs an
AI> older version of glib installed. The source and a bunch of patches live
AI> in the slackware tree so I`ll go grab it from there and try my luck.
AI> I usually use vlc or audacious but xmms is nice too.
AI> --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6
AI> * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
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-Andy
Website:
https://andy5995.github.io
... Got my tie caught in the fax... Suddenly I was in L.A.
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