Emerald working on Compiz 0.9.8-bzr codebase?! you betcha :)

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I just thought i'd drop a quick post about about Emerald working with Compiz 0.9.8, as it was broken for a long time.
There was a discussion (@ lp:compiz ) about removing support completely for emerald, but a few dev's and other users (including myself) spoke up against that idea and now it appears it should stick around
https://code.launchpad.net/~vanvugt/com … rge/110734
This is where i grabbed the sources for Emerald, compiled them, and they work fine with Compiz from bzr branch
https://launchpad.net/~brainpower/+arch … /+packages
One note, you have to;
export LDFLAGS='-lm -ldl'
before running ./configure otherwise it will fail to compile due to;
/usr/bin/ld: engine_loader.o: undefined reference to symbol 'dlclose@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'dlclose@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO /lib/libdl.so.2 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/bin/ld: main.o: undefined reference to symbol 'exp@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'exp@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
I hadn't used Emerald in some time, but am happy to have it back. I'm going to get in touch with whomever (if anyone) is actively maintaining Emerald to have the LDFLAGS added...
Canonical won't officially support it, but it seems they will let it continue to be unofficially supported for the larger community.
hopefully, some people will take up the challenge of improving emerald, as it would be a nice alternative to gtk-window-decorator.
cheerz
Last edited by triplesquarednine (2012-06-20 04:25:44)

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That's good to here. I've been working these last couple of days on stable Compiz and Emerald ebuilds in Gentoo (my overlay is https://github.com/BlueDragonX/fm-overlay). I'd like to finally bump into 0.9.
My biggest issue was finding a newer version of Emerald. I'd basically given up. Glad I ran across this.