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webmaster | 18 Mar 22:38

Hello

Hello.

I want to (shortly) introduce myself hereby.
I am a (C/C++) developer from Germany being recently very interested in 
Linux and its concepts. I did mainly GUI and DSP development and 
webdesign (on the Windows platform) in the past.

Some of my special interests are also professional audio and music studio 
technology and coding for that area.

I found the Y Window System very interesting, because I saw very fast the 
common problems with the good old X systems on Linux after starting with it. 
Thousands of window managers, GUI frameworks and dependencies is quite 
confusing for a Linux newbe, well surely even for the white rabbits of you 
too... 

But I am also aware of the fact, that X11 for instance, is actively used with 
the actual Macintosh OS... 

However,
reading the Y Window System documentation by Mark was like a fascinating 
shining sparkle in the dark of all my confusing Linux experience in the past. 
I like the concept, the clearness and it also gave me some spontaneous ideas 
for a future direction.

In the next time I'll try to examine all the material (regarding Y) available 
on the internet intensively and 'I'll see if I can connect some of the ideas 
of my past work (especially GUI and graphics design and widgets coding) to 
contribute to the project.
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webmaster | 19 Mar 08:34

First results of 'trial and error'

Well,
I tried to compile several versions on a SUSE Linux 10.0 (with all the latest 
updates).

The original branch from Marks website did not compile at all. Too many errors 
here while compiling, some of them even red coloured...

Then I tried all the branches from Dustins {arch} distributions (--dustin, 
--cairo, --pixbuf).  Those compiled at least without any errors but some 
problems neverthelless. Note: I DID update all the patches via tla before 
building.

I get the following error message with all the packages (at make or 
make/install stage):

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make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/PROJECTS/Y--cairo--0.2--patch-20/Y'
Making install in libYc++
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/PROJECTS/Y--cairo--0.2--patch-20/libYc++'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../Y/CheckBox.ycd', needed by 
`Y/c++/CheckBox.yh'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/PROJECTS/Y--cairo--0.2--patch-20/libYc++'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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There is also a general problem with my setup, because there is the following 
message with configure:

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webmaster | 20 Mar 03:29

Some riddles ...

There are two "riddles" to me at the moment:

1. What does the following configure on my SUSE Linux 10 mean?
->
...
Your linker does not appear to support C++ versioned symbols. It is probably
either too old, or not GNU binutils.

A workaround has been enabled that should permit libYc++ to basically work,
but you must avoid having two different versions of libYc++ installed at the
same time, and binaries linked against it on this system should not be
distributed.
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That is especially important to me because of the second part of that message 
(redistribution issues).

and 
2. Why is an older version of the libsigc++ necessary to compile Y? Can't that 
be fixed? What is the reason for that?

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