As I said in the previous post, I was in doubt regarding the fact of continuing or not to provide prebuilt packages. Nowadays there are more tools that help Slackware users with the installation of third-party software, compared to the past. This applies both to the installation via SlackBuild scripts and the one from prebuilt ...
Slackware 14.2 has been finally released, so I decided to (re)create some new prebuilt packages for this version. The packages (for which I also maintain the SlackBuild scripts at SlackBuilds.org) are libcpuid, libmseed and packETH. As usual, the packages are available for both 32 and 64 bit versions of Slackware and you can find them into ...
A few news for this week. I’ve upgraded the libcpuid SlackBuild for version 0.2.2. You can find it on SlackBuilds.org. The procedure to build the package is the same as described into the second-last post of this blog. In addition I’ve created the SlackBuild script for libmseed. The Mini-SEED library provides a framework for manipulation ...
In the last week I’ve tried to make my first SlackBuild script. I’ve decided to start with libcpuid. libcpuid is a small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction. Using it, you can: get the processor vendor, model, brand string, code name get information about CPU features such as: number of cores or ...