[desktop-discuss] Re: Eye Candy for Solaris's Desktop - Compiz on Solaris x86

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

Feel free to commit the spec files to SFE.

Laca

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:44 +0100, Erwann Chenede wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Mike Kiedrowski wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Hello,
> > This is all very interesting. I would love to see Beryl running on 
> > Solaris.
> > Any interest in starting a project? I sure would be up for it.
> >
> > Anyway, here are a couple spec-files for compiz and compiz-settings.
> Whao ! Excellent ! Thanks :)
> > There are a couple issues:
> >
> > 1) I had to point the source tarball URL to the pre-patched compiz 
> > package posted on Erwann's blog as the patch won't apply to the 
> > compiz-0.3.6 tarball available at the compiz web site.I haven't had 
> > time to see what it would take to redo the patch for the 0.3.6 package.
> I've created a patch to make the official release of compiz-0.3.6 work 
> on Solaris. The patch can be found here 
> http://www.gnome.org/~erwannc/compiz/compiz-solaris-for-0.3.6.diff.
> I've put an updated version of your spec file 
> http://www.gnome.org/~erwannc/compiz/SFEcompiz.spec
> >
> > 2) I also had to point the source tarball URL for the compiz-settings 
> > package to the one posted on Erwann's blog, the download link for the 
> > compiz-settings package at the compiz web site seems to be broken (at 
> > least it was last night and this morning). I haven't be able to find 
> > another source.
> Same for me, that's the reason why I've uploaded it on gnome.org :)
> 
> I've noticed that for the Source URL : the ~ got changed in %7E  and 
> wget failed because of that.
> 
> Why are you using gcc instead of the default compiler ? I've generated 
> the package with SunStudio without problem. so I removed  the export 
> CC="/usr/sfw/bin/gcc" line.
> 
> For convenience I've also uploaded it here : 
> http://www.gnome.org/~erwannc/compiz/SFEcompiz-settings.spec
> >
> > Other than that the specs have worked fine for me.I was reluctant to 
> > commit them to the SFE repository because of all the X hacking 
> > involved to get them to build and the above two issues. So I  thought 
> > I'd post them here for now.
> Nod, I think we need to wait for the Xorg client libs to be available on 
> Solaris to add them in the repository.
> 
>     Thanks again,
> 
>              Erwann
>