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RE: pictures at tracker
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 17 May 2002 18:46:03 GMT
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> Pre-built?  What?!?  I thought you were the local make expert. ;^)
> Seriously though, If an expert at make can't build ldglite then
> what's the point of the linux instructions.  Give them a try:
> 
>   http://www.ldraw.org/download/start/linux/

Ummm Don. Maybe I should explain that I'm an engineer, and
that means I'm lazy too! I was *wondering* why there were
no pre-built binaries avaialable.

> But grab ldglitesrc0_9_5.zip instead of 0_9_4, and skip the two
> perl steps because that's supposed to be fixed in 0_9_5.

I already got those last night - I just haven't had
enough personal CPU cycles to go through the build procedure
myself. Nice docs on the linux install, by the way.

Oh, and before I forget, let's all give the folks at LDRAW a
big round of applause for the recent site improvements.

> And while you're at it, feel free to give me some tips on my
> makefiles.  If you read the comments inside you'll notice that I
> had problems with a few things.

Don, make files (unless extremely well documented) have inplicit
author read-only permissions :-) But I'll have a peek anyways!

Cheers, Ralph



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(...) I guess because I'd have to make a bunch of binaries, one for every conceivable linux distribution, and being an engineer myself, I'm lazy too. :) I provide prebuilt binaries for certain closed-source operating systems though because they (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) Pre-built? What?!? I thought you were the local make expert. ;^) Seriously though, If an expert at make can't build ldglite then what's the point of the linux instructions. Give them a try: (URL) grab ldglitesrc0_9_5.zip instead of 0_9_4, and (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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