Re: few, fast questions.

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:24:30PM +0200, Ciro Scognamiglio wrote:

a log of questions, which sound like you didn't try the NetBSD
package system yet. In detail:

> 1- rpm 3.0.3 won't build. I got a compiler time error...
> I will report the error as soon as I have some spare time to dedicate
> to netbsd...

Did you build this from the NetBSD package system? If yes, report to tech-pkg
please. If no, you should build from the pkg system.

All knowledge about what tricks are needed to compile a 3rd party package
are entered into the pkgsrc system.

> I'm going to recompile some packages from RedHat 6.1 (it worked
> with Linux, it should with netbsd too ;))

If you need external programs, _first check_ whether there are NetBSD
packages for them, for the same reason.

> 2- I have modified the rc.local and put YES to the virtual console
> option (IIRC it's the last one) but as soon as NBSD boots up I get several 
> errors first on tty's not configured (how do I do it) then on virtual
> console devices not configured...any advice?

You would need to rewrite the Amiga grf and ite drivers to support wscons, 
first. In case you can do this, you are very welcome :-)

> 3- I have tried building abiword with no success...anyone knows a good
>From pkgsrc?

> and fast word processor to use with netbsd? (am I asking too much?)
Good: IMO, TeX (we have a teTeX package), possibly in combination with
LyX, at least for small jobs.

The Lout people think Lout is better (again, NetBSD has a pkg for this).
I've briefly played with "pw" (from the SIAG pkg).

> 4- Same thing with a web browser, I have somewhere the sources of amaya,
> I will try to recompile it even though someone said it's not so good...

Choose from the half dozen in the NetBSD pkg tree.

> 5- What is the base directory where to install additional packages???
> is /usr/X11R6 just right?

Defaults for the pkgs system is 

> 6- Why there is no autoconf?

We don't need to discover what compile parameter to use for NetBSD. We know
it already... the BSD 

> 7- Why there is no bash? (well, actually I found one compiled for netbsd
> 1.2)

In-tree we have a POSIX sh, we have the PD korn shell (ksh) and the csh.
In addition, you can choose among a couple third-party shells to add from
the pkg system.

Regards,
        -is