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[technosaurus]

Here is the latest compiled for puppy 4.X. It should automatically download and install gtkmm and cairomm with petget


Edit: 0.5.2 in later post for now - no *mm libs required
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=27110
but requires updated glib
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=26606

compiled with

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Barry usually compiles gparted static to save MM space, here's his notes on it,
Also if you do that static version maybe inkscape, since those are the 2 main static mm files in the repo.

ttuuxxx

Quote "A problem that has prevented me from upgrading is that Gparted requires the gtkmm libraries, which are huge. This has prevented me from using the Gparted packages that come with the compatible-distros.

Furthermore, the gtkmm libraries packages provided with the compatible distros do not include '.a' static library files. So, to compile Gparted with static gtkmm libraries and hence get a reasonably small package, I have to go through the whole exercise of compiling them. I have done this in Jaunty pup. Here is how:


cairomm-1.8.0

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-docs --enable-static --disable-shared



glibmm-2.20.0

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-fulldocs --enable-static --disable-shared



pangomm-2.24

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-docs --enable-static --disable-shared



gtkmm-2.16.0

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-docs --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-demos



libuuid

missing, needed! this is part of 'e2fsprogs' but ubuntu doesn't seem to have the 'dev' component (include files, uuid.pc, libuuid.so).

...I had compiled binary in T2, grabbed dev components from there.



gparted-0.4.4

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-doc --disable-scrollkeeper

# make

# new2dir make install

[technosaurus]

Here it is compiled statically against those. It only tripled in size (but still much smaller than installing the extra mm shared libs)

I edited the menu entry to remove gksu.

[Jim1911]

Tried this static complie on upup476, but it didn't work and broke the existing Gparted.

Also tried it on pup430 and it upgraded the existing Gparted and worked fine.

Thanks for pushing to keep pup up to date.
Jim

[mikeb]

Just for reference is the newer version of grub needed with partitions made with this version?

mike

[technosaurus]

It was compiled for/with 4.2.1 (upup uses different versions of everything)

I may be wrong but the new grub should only be required if you use ext4. I think Barry was working on grub already. If not I can give it a shot.

[technosaurus]

I don't normally pack executables with upx (for a number of reasons), but with binaries larger than 2MB it kinda makes sense, so here it is packed with upx:

[technosaurus]

0.4.7 is out & it is added to my 4.4CE TODO list

[mikeb]

[chrome307]

@ technosaurus

Thanks for Gparted

I seem to have a problem with having this application creating an entry in my menu toolbar.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!

btw I'm using BrowserLinux built using 4.12.

[technosaurus]

I was just packaging it for testing so I think it may be missing the gparted.desktop file in /usr/share/applications. I will put one in 0.4.7 when I compile it.

[chrome307]

Thank you again!!

[technosaurus]

updated to 048

[technosaurus]

UPDATED - see later post for build without libdevmapper dependency

this needed to be updated according to the gparted website there were problems in previous releases

I also updated libparted to 1.9 (2.1 is in the releases section but not listed as the latest stable on the rarely updated gnome development site) and compiled it statically into gparted 0.5.1 - the only other programs that depend on libparted are the 2 that come with it - no scripts appear to use them so with this gparted you should be able to remove parted, partprobe and libparted...

by the way even with libparted compiled in statically and NOT upx'd it is this much smaller just from optimization and using non-PIC static libraries (You have to be carefull to keep these separate because they won't play well if built into a shared library - work great and fast for binaries though) - net savings 1,211kb or almost 1.2MB

[DMcCunney]