From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP <--> Linux portability
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:57:44 GMT
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 01:17:18 +0100, Jason Green
<news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>"Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote:
>
>> 1. I have a disquieting feeling that doing graphics stuff in Linux is
>> tricky.  For example when I try to run the examples that come with the
>> Allegro WIP, I get errors about Mode-X (this only happens for some of the
>> examples).  Does a program need to do stuff with permissions in order to
>> change video mode, or something?
>
>I don't use Allegro but I believe it sits on top of SVGAlib in Linux.
>SVGAlib programs need to be suid root to have access to the video
>hardware.

Or it could use framebuffer or X11, both of which run as normal user.

>> 2. Backslash-newlines, which i use occassionally for the more complicated
>> #defines, aren't recognised by cpp, apparently because of the CRLF problem.
>
>AFAIK, latest versions of gcc are happy with CRLF, so you could also
>upgrade gcc on the Linux box.

Upgrading the compiler on a Linux box often breaks C++ binary
compatibility, which breaks Qt, which breaks KDE.  Is it possible to
update cpp (the preprocessor) without updating all of g++?

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