[request]Splashy!

ro0x · 2006-08-28 23:58:40

http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/doku.php

Splashy is a next generation boot splashing system for Linux systems. Unlike other splashig systems, it needs no patches to the kernel and it's installed like a normal package. Make your boot process eye-candy with Splashy!

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

chrismortimore · 2006-08-29 00:14:56

Why not make a PKGBUILD for it if you want it? From the installation instructions, it seems like it should be very easy to do.

ro0x · 2006-08-29 00:18:04

"Forum Index -> AUR Package Requests" <--- the topic of this section of the forum

chrismortimore · 2006-08-29 00:35:33

Still, the instructions make it sound like its a very easy one to do, so why not give it a go yourself?

ro0x · 2006-08-29 00:41:50

yeah is really easy to make but I need to see if a user of archlinux already have it in their machine, the app needs a script to init their functions and a patch for this error that is the reason of this post

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Werror -o splashy -all_load -Wl,-udirectfb_fbdev -Wl,-udirectfbwm_default -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_Default -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_FT2 -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_GIF -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_PNG -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_JPEG -Wl,-udirectfb_keyboard -Wl,-udirectfb_ati128 -Wl,-udirectfb_cyber5k -Wl,-udirectfb_i810 -Wl,-udirectfb_i830 -Wl,-udirectfb_mach64 -Wl,-udirectfb_neomagic -Wl,-udirectfb_nsc -Wl,-udirectfb_radeon -Wl,-udirectfb_savage -Wl,-udirectfb_sis315 -Wl,-udirectfb_tdfx splashy-splashy_main.o splashy-splashy_functions.o splashy-xml_parser.o splashy-xml_config.o splashy-splashy_video.o splashy-common_functions.o  -lgcc_s -lpthread -lm -lc /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a
gcc: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [splashy] Error 1
make[2]: se sale del directorio `/home/xo0r/splashy-0.1.8.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/xo0r/splashy-0.1.8.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

tomk · 2006-08-29 06:17:40

I've done some work on it - I just can't summon enough interest to finish it off. I'll post some details here later (bit busy at the moment).

phrakture · 2006-08-29 17:55:57

I plan on delving into this later on (this weekend?). I mean, I at least want to write the mkinitcpio hook, because that will be fun. I had planned on doing this with usplash as well, but this seems to be a tad better and without the ubuntu branding.

tomk · 2006-08-29 21:05:36

Cool. Here's what I got so far, if it's of any use.

To build splashy, I first had to rebuild glib2 with --enable-static, build directfb with --enable-static, and rebuild procps with make SHARED=0. Once these are installed splashy builds with no errors, although I had to add a few seds to the PKGBUILD to correct paths etc, as follows:

# Contributor: Tom K <tomk>
pkgname=splashy
pkgver=0.1.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="User-space bootsplash application"
makedepends=('directfb' 'glib2' 'procps' 'pkgconfig')
source=(http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/1607/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('afbac4814a7370da1c4ddcb9873ad170')
url="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/splashy"
license="GPL"

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  
  sed -i 's| -Werror||' configure.ac
  sed -i '/cp/s|splashy/schemas|splashy|' Makefile.am
  sed -i 's|usr/lib/libproc|lib/libproc|' src/Makefile.in
  sed -i 's|usr/lib/libproc|lib/libproc|' src/Makefile.am

  ./configure --enable-static --prefix=/ --mandir=/usr/man --datadir=/usr/share
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg configdir=/etc/splashy scriptsdir=/etc/rc.d 
  schemasdir=$startdir/pkg/usr/share install
}

To run it - well, I thought about adapting the totally-Debian-specific 1,624-line splashy-init script (possibly the most un-Arch-like thing I've ever seen), but every time I started reading through it, I fell asleep.
Seriously, I'm sure there's some good stuff in there, but I decided instead to look at initscripts-gensplash for ideas, and I've got as far as a crude implementation along those lines - basically, adding appropriate splashy commands at various points in rc.sysinit, rc.multi, and rc.shutdown. I have absolutely no doubt that there are many smarter ways to do this.

Latest version is 0.1.8.1, btw - I haven't looked at the changes yet.

iphitus · 2006-08-30 12:12:21

i started adapting usplash not that long ago, but my laptop hdd's crappin out, so I'll try and salvage what i can.

and phrak, maybe the u isnt ubuntu, it could be 'userspace' splash

i picked usplash over splashy because well... usplash looked easier

James

tomk · 2006-08-30 12:41:52

I'm pretty sure usplash has been dropped by Ubuntu, in favour of splashy.

dtw · 2006-08-30 12:56:20

Er...guys...if I (finally) make the patches to the gensplash pkg then gensplash will work without kernel patches too...all a bit much of a muchness, n'est pa?

tomk · 2006-08-30 13:43:53

Anything wrong with having a choice?

phrakture · 2006-08-30 15:06:08

I agree. Personally, I've never liked gensplash. It may be some sort of subconcious thing with the gentoo branding, not sure. Anything that _is_ cross distro, and branded for a given distro irritates the crap out of me.

Anyway, splashy seems overly complex, and i actually don't like directfb. Mayhaps I'll go back to trying usplash.... /shrug

dtw · 2006-08-30 18:04:33

tomk wrote:

Anything wrong with having a choice?

Nothing at all. It was merely an FYI and a comment that they all do the same thing. As far as I'm aware that is still allowed?

tomk · 2006-08-30 18:27:13

As is my response.

dtw · 2006-08-30 18:35:39

Quite.

phrakture · 2006-08-30 18:55:29

Verbosity.

stonecrest · 2006-08-30 20:00:02

iphitus · 2006-08-31 00:29:39

You sir, are a fishmonger.

ro0x · 2006-09-01 22:43:14

:mrgreen:

tomk · 2006-09-01 22:54:25

Ah yes... the OP. Glad you're still here.

What do you think of progress so far? Any of the above any use to you?

syamajala · 2006-09-01 23:24:33

splashy looks interesting but i wonder why they decided to use directfb

ro0x · 2006-09-02 05:06:40

yeah the package works but... the initscript is a nightmare

Romashka · 2006-09-04 13:33:31

You can take a look on Frugalware's package. Frugalware uses splashy from 0.5pre2.

Exclamation · 2006-10-04 18:56:55

Wondering if theres any updates on this.
Im sure we could use the frugal packages as a base.

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