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linc - Library for writing networked servers and clients ChangeLog

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http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-linc/

HOWTO

# linc 1.0.3
# ==========
# Slackware 9.0's 'linc' package includes 1.0.1, 9.1's includes 1.0.3
# Slackware >= 10.0 don't include linc.

# Prerequisites:
# sed
# grep
# pkg-config
# glib-2.0 >= 1.3.11
# gtk-doc (Slack 9.0 includes 'sgml-tools' in extra, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and
#  10.2 include it as a regular package in 'ap', they're all version 1.0.9)

cd
test -f installed/linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 && mv installed/linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/linc/1.0/linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "29f01b7e3e6045395e369d988573d517  linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2" | md5sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "linc-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xjvf ~/linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
cd linc-1.0.3
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib

# I got an error building it while make was making it's way through the docs
# subdirectory, so I cd'd into docs, I ran 'make -i' (ignore errors), then I
# 'cd ..' and re-ran make again.  If I'm missing a doc or two, that's OK
# with me.  If it's not OK with you, you may want to give Google a try.

make

# Become root to install it
su

removepkg linc
rm -f /usr/lib/liblinc.*
make install
ldconfig

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/linc-*.tar.*
mv linc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 installed/