Summer gifts

Today is 08/08/08. And this is funny. Seriously. Here there are two gifts for you and some random updates. Before, I want to thank everyone gave me feedback during these days about g/fbsd, mainly on irc. This means that someone read the ugly blagpost I wrote.
However, recently I wrote a short draft about how to install g/fbsd 7.0 on your box. The “guide” is quite similar to 6.2’s one, but some steps were radically changed, so I suggest to use the new one if you want to perform a new install. I want to tell you that this documentation is completely experimental, so there {c,sh}ould be some errors. As for all my work, for this guide feddbacks arre welcome and very appreciated (and also bugreporting).

The guide can be found on my devspace, here .

In addiction, Firefox and mozilla-related stuffs _actually_ doesn’t compile on g/fbsd 7.0. However there’s a quick fix to “solve” this problem. Create a script called /usr/bin/objformat and put in these lines:

#!/bin/bash
if echo __ELF__ | cc -E - | grep -q __ELF__ ; then echo aout ; else echo elf ; fi

It’s enough, however there ins’t a proper way to fixx mozilla, and this because the team have to update their Makefiles to guess the object format in a more ‘modern’ way, not using that “freebsd-4″ old thing anymore.

That’s all.
Cheers

dav