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

[Moinak Ghosh]

Doug Scott wrote:
> 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
>   

   I think this broken link was one of the bugs fixed recently. Try
   ls -l  /usr/X11/lib/libXcomposite.so*

   There might be a newer version of libXconposite sitting in there.

Regards,
Moinak.