[X2Go-Dev] Packaging nx-libs (aka x2goagent) for your distro

[Milan Knížek]

Hello John,

V Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:20:28 -0800
John Williams <jwilliams4200 at gmail.com> napsáno:

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Milan Knížek
> <knizek.confy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So at the moment, the semi-automatic build process has to download
> > and compile major part of nx-libs repeatedly for each of the
> > dependency (nxcomp: requires nx-x11; nxagent: requires nx-x11,
> > nxcomp, nxcompext, ..., nx-x11; etc...). It works, nonetheless it
> > is slow and inefficient.
> 
> Yes, the makefile currently distributed with nx-libs (redistributed)
> is broken as you say. It sounds like someone is working on it (see
> post from Michael Kromer).

Yup, I noticed that after having sent my message. That's good.

> As for the recompilation difficulty, I made an Archlinux package that
> installs everything from the nx-libs tarball at once, rather than
> splitting it into a lot of separate packages.

This approach is good for local install, though for AUR I should be
more carefull not to break dependencies of other packages not
maintained by me: x2goclient, winswitch (optional dependency:
nxproxy), and who knows how many other packages depending on some of
the nx*thing are there.


Regards,
Milan


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