Documentation Talk:STK1000/BSP Known Issues

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This seems a reasonable place to discuss problems I'm having with the first "Known Issue" workaround, namely "Missing support for DirectFB [#4148]".

       $ cd software
       $ cd directfb

From my home directory, the first of those two commands failed. Please point out these commands may need to be done from the CDROM in a directory like this:

       /media/cdrom0/software/directfb$ 

(Or are these instructions being kept generic so people without a CD can proceed? Perhaps others don't download the CD?) Full pathnames are good if possible.

Figuring out the first part of the path required I use "find / -name DirectFB*". (This would have never been found if I'd remained on a Windows box.) After doing all this new "apt-get" stuff off the Internet, I'd forgotten the CD was in the drive!

My next problem is receiving mounds of error messages for the next command:

       $ tar -xf DirectFB-0.9.25.1.tar.gz

The man page on "tar" does not say where the files will be extracted TO. I even ran the above command with "sudo" in front in case root permissions were required to create directories where the files go. Here are the last few lines (out of hundreds!) of error message:

       tar: DirectFB-0.9.25.1/rules: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
       tar: DirectFB-0.9.25.1/rules/Makefile.in: Cannot open: No such file or directory
       tar: DirectFB-0.9.25.1/rules/Makefile.am: Cannot open: No such file or directory
       tar: DirectFB-0.9.25.1/rules/libobject.make: Cannot open: No such file or directory
       tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
       l1g6@L1G6:/media/cdrom0/software/directfb$

Clearly I'm missing something. Last semester's Unix class mentioned Ubuntu, so I loaded it up Monday (been in the Windows jail for FAR too long). That is why I have no idea where to copy the tar.gz file - or even if copying it onto hard disk is recommended before extracting the files. (Seems an odd thing to require.)

Finally, consider saying how important DirectFB support is (if at all). Mentioning this at the end of the "Description:" line would be good. Do users really need DirectFB support? Can they develop code without it? (I'm really interested in this question myself. I'd like to skip this step if possible, considering the difficulties.) The DirectFB website doesn't give an importance indication either, just touting graphics acceleration (needless for a compiler) and input device abstraction (I prefer my REAL keyboard/mouse).

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