[sword-devel] I give up

[Tom Sullivan]

Y'all:

I finally successfully brought up a Fedora VM.

General warning: Do NOT install LXDE - it will trash your ability to 
highlight text or copy/paste. XFCE is fine.

Anyway, I tried multiple times to compile and run:
Sword - worked fine as a test - there is a current rpm.
Bibletime - could not compile - rpm is still version 2
Xiphos - Could compile, had to copy *.so in order to run, acted 
strangely and did not show all modules. - rpm is still version 4.1

This is NOT a call for assistance. I will await suitable rpm files from 
any source. Monkeying around with that which is over my head is a waste 
of everybody's time, mine and yours.

Many thanks.

Tom

Tom Sullivan
info at BeForgiven.INFO
FAX: 815-301-2835
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On 5/14/20 4:06 AM, Dominique Corbex wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:27:43 -0400
> Tom Sullivan <info at beforgiven.info> wrote:
> 
>> The repositories do not contain the latest versions. For example, the
>> Debian Buster repository presents Xiphos 4.1, not the latest 4.2.
> 
> I was a long time Debian user, I switched to Fedora for that reason.
> 
> On Fedora, (many thanks to Greg) you have all the latest
> frontend/backend software, and tools/bindings you need for building
> your own modules and so on. Boring time spent trying to build
> xiphos/sword/whateverelse from scratch is history.
> 
> I don't have any regrets. IMHO Every serious Crosswire user should run
> Fedora.
> 
> Dom
>