Another question about dev tools...
 

Hey gang,

This is probably another of my questions that gets the 'it's not wise' or 'no, you can't without borking the whole system' answers, but I won't know unless I ask.

The lates pan newsreader is out, v0.157 and I've been using pan since I discovered newsreaders can be in gui, heh.

Thing is, the version I'm currently using is 0.149...a few years old. There seems to be a few good 'upgrades' done to it since then, and some nice bug fixes.

Here's where I run into troubles...

pan now says the autotools is deprecated and now prefers to be 'made' with cmake.

The cmake that comes stock on Slackware 15.0 x64 is version 3.21.4 and pan wants 3.25 or higher, if one uses the autotools (autoconf particularly), Slackware's version is 2.69 and pan wants 2.71 or better.

So, my question is, can I 'upgrade' both of those or either just one or the other and not screw up my system? Thanks for any info on this.

Oh...and completely off-topic...umbilical hernia surgery *HURTS*!!! It's been 6 days now since the surgery and my stomach *still* hurts like hell! Compare that to when I got t-boned a year and a half ago while I was on my Harley. Compound fracture of both bones in the left calf, every rib on the left side broken, punctured lung, and 8 stitches in the left elbow, and now I have a metal plate on either side of the ankle and a metal rod inside the large bone from knee to ankle, lots of screws, and I'll tell you what, that surgery didn't hurt nearly as bad as this hernia surgery! If you *do* have a hernia...get it fixed yesterday, or you'll regret it! Just thought I'd mention that for fun info, heh heh.

For something like cmake, there's usually no harm in trying to build the new version with the official slackbuild script. If you check the source/ directory on the install media you will find the source tarball and all scripts used to build the packaage. If you run the script as is it will build the same package, but you can make some minor adjustments for a new version. My -current install has 3.29 installed and so you could try to grab the source files from -current and see if it builds on 15.0.

Of course it might fail, but I usually enjoy the puzzle of finding out which compile flags or dependencies have changed.

Your path of least resistance is to ignore this and keep building with autotools for now.

Ah, I see the issue now.

Here, try these. This will get you to the next hurdle.

http://www.slackware.com/~volkerdi/p...-v0.157.tar.lz
http://www.slackware.com/~volkerdi/p...157.tar.lz.asc

WOOHOO! That did the trick! Thanks a million, Mister Pat!!