Survex 1.1.6 development snapshot uploaded

[Wookey]

+++ Andy Waddington [05-10-11 08:47 +0100]:
> The Debian one you cite is for i86, the RPM is a source one (I
> expect there's an i86 binary too). I failed to mention that I'm
> building for Sparc64.

That was kind of significant. Fail to mention it and you get bad/irrelevant
advice :-)

> OK. thanks for all that. Debian seems to still be on XFree86, 

It is for stable (which makes sense on a firewall machine). testing/unstable
have already moved to X.org. So when survex 1.2 is uploaded it will be
fettled to build X.org style.

> Ah, thankyou very much - I had been trying to find something that would
> point me to a way to search for what package might meet a particular
> requirement or contain a particular file, and hadn't found one yet.

aptitude is very good too (avoids the use of pesky GUIs), has a nice
interactive search on the '/' key.

apt-cache search foo is a good way of finding 'things which mention foo in
the name or description' [ah ol already mentioned this below]

There is loads of good info like this that seems hard to find out. There is
probably a debian-admin guide somewhere which would give useful runes.

> > If you're using Debian, we assume you'll just install the Survex Debian
> > package we supply which will pull in the required dependencies for you.
> 
> I'd love to. But I presume you don't have Sparc hardware to build on. 

We do for the versions that are in Debian (as opposed to the experimental
versions which aren't yet). That will include the 1.1.x series as soon as it
is declared 1.2 and thus stable, which will be 'soon'. 

> One
> of the reasons I'm trying to do this is so that I will eventually be able to
> build a binary package for Sparc (and later Solaris) and provide it for
> the survex download page. As I don't seem to have time to do much
> coding nowadays it's one way I can contribute back to survex...

OK - that's useful for the current development version. (although it may
have a small audience - there are probably more arm users than sparc ones)

I should probably spend a bit of time making survex cross-build properly
with dpkg-cross as it's quite a good test-case. If/when I do that expect to
become a guinea pig.

Wookey
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