Compiling XV on debian (lindows) system

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:24:54 -0400
> Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody compiled xv on a debian system (lindows)? I get lots of
> > errors for libs not found, mainly X libraries. I edited the Makefile
> > to reflect the location  where they are supposed to be
> > (/usr/X11R6/lib), but they aren't there. Neither is a file Xos.h
> > anywhere to be found on my computer, although it is included in the
> > xv.h file.
>
> Actually, xv is available -- just not from the official sources.  Take a
> look at the following list:
>
> http://www.apt-get.org/
>
> at the bottom is a link to the "Big List".  But if you search packages
> using i386 and all and search for xv, the second entry should have xv
> listed.
>
> Unless you just want to compile for yourself.  Even so, the deb-src is
> also there.

Its also worth noting that the pristine source for xv will *NOT* build on
a modern linux distro.  You have to tweak the code in a few places.  What
i usually do is grab the SRPM from rpmfind.net and rebuild that.

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