Re: [Gnash-dev] slackware machine access ?

[Rob Savoye]

Cedric Roux wrote

> For this kind of stuff, if you have a computer with
> some hard-disk free space (let's say a few hundred MB),

  Very interesting... Disk space I have plenty of. Last time I had 
checked, BOCHS was a pain to setup, but this was pretty easy.

> With qemu, by creating several fake HD you can install
> any OS/distribution you want. Very effective way to do stuff.

  I also discovered the Free OSZoo, with qemu images for most unix 
based operating systems. So I grabbed an image of Slackware 10.2. It had 
all the libraries, so I just scp'd gnash over (I'd love to figure out 
out to NFS mount my regular files system), and it configured and built 
just fine. Gnash even ran! Course everything worked just fine, so I'm 
not sure how useful this will be in tracking down bugs on Slackware. :-)

  I may setup a few other OSes this way, since I can get prebuilt 
images. The compile farm machines aren't barely maintained, which does 
make them good for testing. This may be another way to test on the 
various *BSD and GNU/*Linux machines that I can actually add packages 
to. I'm curious to try the AMD64 and PPC versions. I'd like to find a 
more complete ARM version too, the arm-test one doesn't support much.

        - rob -