What's missing for 4.2?

Benjamin nystire at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 07:25:20 PDT 2014


Subtle hint there... :)

What can be done to help?

Benjamin
On 12 Jun 2014 17:15, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 06:54:58AM +0300, Benjamin wrote:
> > Speaking about things that I know very little about here, but maybe
> build a
> > container with Subsurface and all it's dependencies inside it? Or do they
> > not work that way?
>
> That's certainly an option. But to the best of my knowledge most client
> distros that people are running (think Ubuntu 12.4, Debian stable, random
> version of Fedora or OpenSUSE, Magaia, Mint, Arc, 50 others) don't support
> running conainers, either.
>
> No, I really think the way to go is to have all my libraries included in
> a tar file, install that in a directory, have a little wrapper script that
> sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and be a happy camper. The big problem with that is
> libraries that aren't really relocatable. Crap like libmarble ALWAYS
> trying to load plugins from the system path, regardless where it is
> installed. Of course I have long since disabled Marble plugins in my
> version of the library. But I'm sure there will be other libraries trying
> to read / load files from system locations. So finding and patching out
> those issues will be the major challenge in this little project :-)
>
> /D
>
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