I have a need to Debianize some static resources for a software project but am confused by the available information and could use some guidance in doing so. Here are the materials I’ve been reading: Rolling your own Debian packages Debian New Maintainer’s Guide Debian Library Packaging Guide Debi…
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OpenGL full screen texture brings framerate down to 12fps
I installed linux (Debian) on an old laptop and have been writing an OpenGL application with it. The framerate cruises at about 80fps when drawing a texture on a small portion of the screen. When I draw the texture on a bigger and bigger portion of the screen, the framerate drastically drops. A full-screen te…
Whats the difference between sed -E and sed -e
I’m working on some old code and I found that I used to use but I now try It seems to do the same thing, or does it? I kinda remember there being a reason I done it but I can’t remember and doing “man sed” doesn’t help as they don’t have anything about -E only -e that doesn…
How do you link to a specific version of a shared library in GCC
I’m compiling some code which uses libcurl on a Debian Linux system. My dev machine is running Debian 5 but I want the binary to be usable on older Debian 4 systems too. I find that if I specify -lcurl it will link to libcurl.so.4 but Debian 4 systems only have libcurl.so.3 Is there some way I can tell …