9 Aug 2000 mishan   » (Journeyer)

Just spent a long time trying to get xmms working on OpenBSD. First of all, the OpenBSD glib does not support gthreads. To fix this, one has to install the OpenBSD glib and make sure all remains are deleted. Then you have to compile and install glib with-threads and make the appropriate symlinks for programs that depend on a non-existant lib (libglib.so.1.2) xmms also requires a lot of modifications that I do not want to go into detail. I got xmms running but it cannot load plugins (and therefore cannot do anything.) I think the reason is that the loader for the plugins doesn't support the OpenBSD arch...I didn't feel like hardcoding the play plugin into xmms to get it to work, as one of the cool qualities xmms has is loading plugins...At least I got spruce compiled though, I no longer need Yahoo to check my POP3 accounts from work heh...Getting very sick of OpenBSD and considering coming here during the weekend to install Debian (I really don't want to spend a workday installing/setting up Debian.)

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