Re: current development

[Joseph Heled]

tried to compile gnubg
missing glib2
any ideas?

checking for GLIB... no
configure: error: You need to have glib2 version 2.8.0 or higher to
compile GNU Backgammon
joseph@blkdow:~/Projects/gnubg/gnubg$ sudo apt-get install glib2-devel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package glib2-devel

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 12:58, Russ Allbery <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Philippe Michel <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Debian's choice of building with SSE2 support seems reasonable for
> > amd64. For 32 bits architectures, I don't know at which point SSE2
> > instructions are guaranteed to be available (are they in i686 ?), but if
> > they build without SIMD instructions to support older CPUs the cost for
> > users doing rollouts or thorough analyses will be significant.
>
> Yeah, the i386 binaries are probably pretty slow.  Use of i386 is
> relatively rare at this point, though (and is quasi-unsupported by the
> Linux kernel), so I've not been investing much effort in it and just going
> with a simple compatible build.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>