Re: FBB and Fedora

"Neville A. Cross" <neville@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:02:41 -0600

Hello

I continue to look into how to install fbb in a Fedora box.  Apparently 

there is not much success in the GUI or X interface for FBB. I am 

editing the file ~/fbbsrc.704o/src/X11/Makefile

When I run make it complained about not finding -lXpm  For that reason I 

installed the following packages: imlib imlib-devel xpmdel

Then I added the following paths to the lines:

XINCLUDE =  -I/usr/include/X11 -I/usr/include/Xm 

-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include

XLIBS = -L/urs/lib/X11 -L/usr/lib -L/usr/share

In this XLIBS I inserted the news paths between the old paths and the 

modifiers or whatever the are. (-lXm -lXt -lXpm -lXext -lX11)

I am really shooting in the dark in here. The new result was a different 

complaint. I am wishing this means I am getting closer, but I really 

don't know what to think of it? The complain is related to MD5. I guess 

this is a kind of signature for the files. I can send the output if 

someone wants to look at it.

Probably it is time to take Rober Jenkins advice of: "Possibly you need 

to remove warning line from the makefile?" But I am not sure how to do that

I hope that someone may get any idea with my new tries

Neville YN1V

Robert Jenkins wrote:

From: Neville A. Cross 12 March 2008 16:19

Hello,

I am truing to run FBB in a Fedora install.

I have already setup properly ax25-tool, ax25-apps, libax25 and 

libax25-devel

I need help compiling the fbb files to run in Fedora. Does 

some one done 

it before?

Neville YN1V
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I use Centos, which has the same general layout as Fedora.
(Stick to the i386/i686 version for an FBB machine, I found some things do
not work on the 64 bit OS. It can be a 64 bit CPU, just not the software).

I build the libs, tools & apps on the machine, unpacking all the sources
into /usr/src

In each source there is an INSTALL file, if you read this it gives the
appropriate configure line to put the files in the 'normal' places.

Follow the respective instructions for each file and you should end up with
a set of installed tools and some example configs in /etc/ax25

Once you have all this in place you should be able to build and install FBB.
(Possibly you need to remove warning line from the makefile?).
Nothing else there should need changing (at least up to the fbb704j I'm
presently using).

Note - with older FBB versions there was a separate (tiny) patch to allow
operation with kernel 2.6 - I don't know if this is still required or not,
it will depend on the exact FBB version you are using. If the patch is
needed but not applied, I think it builds OK but crashes during startup.
I can send you this if you can't find it.

FBB has a very complex directory structure with multiple branches. It's
worth finding the diagram of this in the docs and printing it out..

Robert g8tbf.

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