BBQ spin talk

[pidsley]

If I have time this weekend I will try to build emacs with --without-all --without-x and try to install in on a no-X Szalonna.

I tried to install the emacs-nox package from Arch on Szalonna, and it still needs a crapload of libraries. I have installed some of them, but it's still whining about missing libs.

[machinebacon]

^ Sounds cool, thanks in advance!

(Sounds like your weekend is saved ;))

[machinebacon]

We can grab binaries and "dpkg -i" them

just build a bash script for this one, right? BBQ Package Manager? indeed, fuck upgrades. they're overrated. just install a new spin :D

More or less, yes. The dpkg package is available in other distros, much like rpm. Anyway .deb packages are really just tar.gz in a special folder structure with a certain control file, so sucking the juicy part out and throwing away the peel is very easy, even without dpkg :)

[pidsley]

emacs24.5 built with --without-all and --without-x, running on Szalonna with a custom kernel. I only needed to add libtinfo.



I have no idea how functional this is, but it starts. I will try to see if I can do anything with it later. emacs makes my brain hurt.

[machinebacon]

This is exciting!

Which part of Emacs makes your brain hurt? The whacky keybindings? :)

Pidsley, can you try

M-x eww RET

and open a random website (will probably be rendering slow). If this works, then gnus will work too. (I just ask for trying eww because gnus needs to be set up first)

Thank you!

[pidsley]

Pidsley, can you try

M-x eww RET

and open a random website (will probably be rendering slow).

"error in process filter. this function requires emacs to be compiled with libxml2"

So I rebuilt --without-all --without-x --with-xml2, added libxml2 and liblzma, and got this:

[GekkoP]

^ Beautiful! (and thanks for the work, of course)

[machinebacon]

Thank you, pidsley, you're the Man of the Month!

[pidsley]

Thanks guys. I will try to build a version with a generic kernel sometime this weekend, so you and Gekko can test it and tell me what's broken.

(edit) I have it running with a siduction kernel. It may be a little while before I upload it. I'm done for today and I still want to test it a little myself.