[544] in Software_Announce
New in outland: expat-1.95.6, electricsheep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ike)
Tue Jul 8 01:37:11 2003
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 01:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ike <ike@MIT.EDU>
To: <bug-outland@MIT.EDU>, <sofa@MIT.EDU>
I've built expat-1.95.6, an XML parser library, and electricsheep, a
distributed screensave program, for i386_linux24 and i386_rh9, in the
outland locker.
You can find out more about electricsheep at www.electricsheep.org.
Before building it, I modified it (with the help of merolish) so that
by default, it caches the .mpg files that it displays in /var/tmp/sheep/
instead of $HOME/.sheep/. To do this, I checked electricsheep.c into CVS
in /mit/outland/src/electricsheep-2.3/
So far, electricsheep only runs on i386_rh9; on i386_linux24 it fails
with the following error:
athena% electricsheep
mpeg2dec_onroot: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
To fix this, I attempted to build SDL in the outland locker for
i386_linux24, and then rebuild electricsheep, but the same error
persisted, so I ran 'make uninstall' and removed the SDL source from
/mit/outland/src/. (The SDL sources take up a lot of space, and take up
even more after running ./configure and make)
I'd like to be able to run electricsheep on 9.1 machines, but I'm not sure
how to resolve the problem with the mpeg2dec_onroot program and SDL. If
anyone knows how to fix this problem, I'd be happy to learn.
If there is concern that making electricsheep so readily available could
cause a inappropriate waste of bandwidth or computing resources, let's
discuss it (I imagine bug-outland is the appropriate list). Personally,
I doubt many people will use the program, though I encourage anyone on a
9.2 Linux machine to try it out if you like pretty fractals but get bored
quickly with Mandelbrot and Julia sets.
Finally, there's an older expat, expat-1.95.5, in the outland locker,
built by oschwar. He never used it for much, and doesn't think it's likely
that anyone's built anything that depends on it. Would it be reasonable to
garbage collect it?
-Ike
