Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:19:42PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > I got a mail from someone on debian-devel telling me someone already ITP > is on 20th april, so I guess I better not continue working on it... Well, check up with the person who made the ITP; if you've already got it working, they ma

RE: ITP advice please

2000-06-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Jun-2000 Rick Younie wrote: > Could I get advice on whether this is a suitable package? > > The programs are written in the interpreted language rexx. Three > are to query search engines -- Debian, Geocrawler, Dejanews. They > run from the command line and show the hits in Lynx, sorted by

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:19:42PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > I got a mail from someone on debian-devel telling me someone already ITP > is on 20th april, so I guess I better not continue working on it... Well, check up with the person who made the ITP; if you've already got it working, they m

RE: ITP advice please

2000-06-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Jun-2000 Rick Younie wrote: > Could I get advice on whether this is a suitable package? > > The programs are written in the interpreted language rexx. Three > are to query search engines -- Debian, Geocrawler, Dejanews. They > run from the command line and show the hits in Lynx, sorted b

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
I got a mail from someone on debian-devel telling me someone already ITP is on 20th april, so I guess I better not continue working on it... Ron On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > It can be used in 2 ways: > > > > 1. U

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > It can be used in 2 ways: > > 1. Using the environmental variable > (sh syntax) > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 > export LD_PRELOAD > > (csh syntax) > setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 In suc

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
I got a mail from someone on debian-devel telling me someone already ITP is on 20th april, so I guess I better not continue working on it... Ron On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > It can be used in 2 ways: > > > > 1.

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > It can be used in 2 ways: > > 1. Using the environmental variable > (sh syntax) > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 > export LD_PRELOAD > > (csh syntax) > setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 In su

Re: FHS query

2000-06-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:21:16AM +0100, John O Sullivan wrote: > I've got to make a lot of changes to the source to comply with the FHS > so I'd like to double check my plans before I go ahead. > binaries -> /usr/games Yes. Note that if there are also internal game binaries (a sound server or s

Re: FHS query

2000-06-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:21:16AM +0100, John O Sullivan wrote: > I've got to make a lot of changes to the source to comply with the FHS > so I'd like to double check my plans before I go ahead. > binaries -> /usr/games Yes. Note that if there are also internal game binaries (a sound server or

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
It can be used in 2 ways: 1. Using the environmental variable (sh syntax) LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 export LD_PRELOAD (csh syntax) setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 2. Using the file: /etc/ld.so.preload, if this is used the library must be o

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
It can be used in 2 ways: 1. Using the environmental variable (sh syntax) LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 export LD_PRELOAD (csh syntax) setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 2. Using the file: /etc/ld.so.preload, if this is used the library must be