[RevServer + Rev on Linux] Checking if you have the needed libraries

[Andre Garzia]

Peter,

there are indeed problems that are tied to missing libraries. I think this
is true at least for Rev IDE if I remember correctly from past experiences,
rev will startup with some missing libs and will remove the feature used
from that library. For example text antialiasing with pango, if pango is not
present IDE will load without antialiasing, I also think that if you're
missing mplayer it will still load but play no video.

I can't say this is definitely true these days but I think rev ide
gracefully degrades some of its features in the absense of some libraries
but I don't quite remember if this is the intended behaviour never
implemented or if this is true right now.

I will try more about it later.

Andre

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Peter Alcibiades <
palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
> I'm not knocking it, this is indeed absolutely the right way to track down
> and fix dependencies.  But it would be a mistake to think this is the
> source
> or the main source of the Rev on Linux problems.  You can pass the test,
> have all the dependencies, which I always have had, and you will still have
> the problems.   Yes, by all means give the info to people who have Linux
> issues and don't know about ldd.  But with the caveat that if you are using
> any modern mainstream distro, missing dependencies are not likely to be the
> source of the problems.
>
> If, and I think its a big if, if there were definite problems that have
> been
> reported that can be tied to particular libraries being missing, that would
> great, it would lead to instant solutions.  But I don't know of any.  Maybe
> others do?
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