[desktop-discuss] 3D Desktop : Compiz fusion for Solaris x86

[Doug Scott]

Doug Scott wrote:
> Erwann Chenede wrote:
>   
>> Hi Mario,
>>
>> Mario Goebbels wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I suppose that the Emerald window manager is crash happy, too, and as
>>> such not included? My own builds crashed left and right.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> Actually, no, I just didn't think it was important to bundle another 
>> window decorator with the "core" packages.
>> I've just ported emerald and its main themes to solaris, the spec files 
>> can be found on SFE, if you are interested.
>> http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/
>>
>> You'll need to build SFEemerald and SFEemerald-themes to generate the 
>> packages.
>>
>> For details see :
>> http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/SFEemerald.spec?view=markup
>> http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/SFEemerald-themes.spec?view=markup
>>
>> I'll post pointer to precompiled packages on my blog tomorrow.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>           Erwann
>>   
>>     
> Erwann,
>    Does SFEemerald also need libdecoration to build??
> Doug
>
> checking for EMERALD... configure: error: Package requirements ( xrender 
>  >= 0.8.4                   gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8.0               
> libwnck-1.0                    libdecoration                    
> pangocairo) were not met:
>
> No package 'libdecoration' found
>   
A bit more info -
    libdecoration.so was actually in /usr/lib, but no .pc file.  The 
shell script install does not install the -devel packages???

So to tried to rebuild compiz from the spec files, and found that snv_72 
is missing libXcomposite.so.1.0.0. Ahhhhh!

Doug

jdsbuild at prae> uname -a
SunOS prae 5.11 snv_72 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
jdsbuild at prae> ls -l /usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Sep 11 23:48 
/usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so -> libXcomposite.so.1.0.0
jdsbuild at prae> ls -l /usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Sep 11 23:48 
/usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 -> libXcomposite.so.1.0.0
jdsbuild at prae> ls -l /usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so.1.0.0
ls: /usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so.1.0.0: No such file or directory
root at prae> pkgchk SUNWxwplt
root at prae>