IRIX and Software

This may be "obvious" to the power users here, but here is my report on Gnome2/IRIX compilation:

The latest Gnome2 source tarballs from ftp.gnome.org (as of 11/2012) compile "fine" on 6.5.29 with MIPSPro 7.4.4. I didn't have to modify anything, at all, outside of some autoconf switches and compiler directive fung-shui. All of the "core" software also compiled without issue.

-- That said, there are issues with the Nautilus file manager not understanding the IRIX file system (nonsensical desktop icons/"My Computer", etc. -- presumably from lacking a Linux/BSD-style /proc), but otherwise 100% usable, and acceptable speed on 2x600MHz Octane. Nautilus compiles w/o complaint.

This would be awesome with some guru intervention (to fix Nautilus).

I actually like 4dwm and I love Gnome on my (CUDA devel) Intel Linux box and all my Suns.. v440, Balde 1500, etc. I run IRIX for IRIX features and I don't need to turn it into a Linux clone, just because I can. But to each their own. Have fun with that. I already have thousands of lines of over due code to complete this week anyway.


R.

Agreed but there are some worthwhile applications which require gnome, so it's nice to know it could be done. Same with Qt4 ... awful-looking toolkit but there's them few apps I'd like to use. Some day ....

Theres a project over at Grace (which is a Motif application) to gtk2 it. It's one person, and it apparently works fairly well now. What's inspirational about that is that if a single person can rewrite a big application to use gtk2, then the reverse is possible as well. Motif Paraview, maybe ?

Good to hear that gnome is still compileable. Any chance you could provide updated nekoware packages, or at least document the autoconf or compiler flag magic you had to conjure up?

I saved all the autoconf stuff and I'll post it up ASAP (at work now).

I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to go about making proper packages, but I'll read the material here and try to wrap my head around it.

The good news is, that I used alot of the existing Nekoware 'core' stuff like libjpeg, etc. That stuff seems pretty stable. I think the only package that had any overlap was the xft/libfreetype stuff.