[bt-devel] Missing bt-printing

[Brook Humphrey]

On Sunday 13 May 2001 03:12 pm, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brook Humphrey" <bah@webmedic.net>
> To: <bt-devel@crosswire.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [bt-devel] Missing bt-printing
>
> > Sorry it took so long to reply I'm working on a static version of
>
> bibletime
>
> > that is not working out so well. and While the static builds it pretty
>
> much
>
> > makes xfree kind of unusable.
> >
> > I havn't tried with redhat 7.1 yet so I can't say yet. I do have it and
> > it
>
> is
>
> > planned for a build but I do all my work on my mandrake box so everything
> > gets tested there and when it is complete then I try on the other
> > systems.
> >
> > But even if you install all the redhat updates for 7.0 it still won't
>
> compile
>
> > redhat 7.0 was done very badly. You may get it to compile if you download
>
> all
>
> > the source code for your system and compile from scratch but there are
> > far
>
> to
>
> > many problems with 7.0.
> >
> > I did install 7.1 and it went smooth. Seems to run faster and maybe there
>
> are
>
> > a few other nice things about it. I may try to compile it today on redhat
>
> 7.1
>
> > but no promises.
>
> Thanks for saving me much grief!  :-)
>
> Without trying to start a flame war, is there any consensus which
> distribution is favoured for development and why?  [I'll download and
> burn the rh7.1 and mandrake 7.1 iso images tomorrow and burn a copy
> to install and build with.]
>
> I know there is a considerable install base in north america in rh6.2.
> Is your intent to eliminate environmental problems with building static
> linked binaries?

One last thing there is an older version of bibletime based on kde 1.2 that 
is static and should work on most systems that the newer ones won't.

>
> I am able to run KDE2.1.1 on my rh6.2 box very well... it works a treat.
> Is it a desired objective of the development team to address this
> market?  Or in other words, is there specific distribution(s) that
> BibleTime is primarily directed to?
>
> Regards... Tim

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