Oolite Bulletins

In Excession (of the Culture series) by Iain M. Banks, Genar-Hofoen gets to become an Affronter.

Cas Tell wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:12 pm

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The "no candidate" entries are still to be evaluated, I could not find a Fedora library to install this stuff.
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Luckily, none (including gnustep-filesystem) of the "no candidate" tagged entries are needed to compile/run Oolite

[...] PS: Worked several hours on Fedora. A real nightmare... And still no success... Will continue tomorrow. HAPPY NEW YEAR, FOLKS! Happy New Year! Just to smooth it a bit for you, imagine you'll have to try it afterwards on an Arch distro, thus you'll have to evolve deb/apt-get -> rpm/yum/dnf -> ...

[...] 6) Start script: #!/usr/bin/bash LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./oolite ./oolite This script shouldn't have line no. 3, i.e. you're trying to start oolite twice, once with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set, and once without. The second (without the variable) will fail. [...] RESULT: ./oolite: symbol l...

[...] Currently we are not building like this on Github. Should it be added there as well? Hmm, this beats me. If you're targeting the builds to the very latest and greatest an apt-get or yum/dnf system will bring to the table, then, no. If you still wanted to keep some backwards compatibility to o...

During compilation you see warnings. But when linking there is something: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status [...] I first did a git clone . Then I walked the steps as written in the README.md: cp .absolute_gitmodules .gitmodules git...

Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks (part of the Culture series)

I'd start with an "en vogue" example, Foundation by Isaac Asimov (which Apple's Foundation managed to twist to an extremely poor resemblance to the original). In Prelude to Foundation , we are entertained for most of the book with Hummin , a journalist, which turns to be Eto Dermezel , emp...

Disclaimer: don't use a joystick/gamepad too often, and didn't test this. Google-fu for "linux joystick button mapping app", returns AntiMicroX (https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox), which seems to cover to some extent what the Logitech app is capable of. One caveat (might or might no...

[...] you can install a shortcut to the font to save space but not sure if that would speed up boot times. [...] Yes, even with font shortcuts, Windows would have to manage a "font cache" file (not sure where it resides in the later versions). Unlike the Linux counterpart, this cannot be ...

My approach would be: - zip-up the whole content of the fonts folder - remove/uninstall most of the fonts (if possible leave only windows out-of-the-box fonts, and those you're really into at this time) - restart - keep the zip file handy -- when you need to use a document with fonts not installed, ...

[...] Are you familiar with git/github? Could you prepare a change? I am familiar a bit with git, but not at all with github. I don't think though the change is that complicated where the 32 bit and 64 bit of libgnustep-base.so.1.20 are retired (deleted), and libgnustep-base.so.1.28 versions added....

[...] Number 2 may have additional caveats as I understand it. I gave a spin to an attempt to rebuild gnustep-base-1.20 in my current Slackware 15.0 version, and it won't work. I tweaked some configuration options (by excluding e.g. objc-api.h, and enforcing the linker to look into /usr/lib64), and...

From what I can tell, there are two obvious options: 1) provide libgnustep-base.so.1.28 instead of libgnustep-base.so.1.20 as a Linux dependency 2) continue building with libgnustep-base.so.1.20 and use it as a runtime dependecy Number 2 above might require an environment with an Obj-C compiler that...

[...] I wonder why since nowhere in the script I see something that would distinguish whether it was started from terminal or GUI. [...] Where do you get a "Run in terminal" checkbox? [...] Interesting. Yes, with such a line the notification also appears on my system. But why would the sc...