Re: skype is really stale

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:14:26 +0800
clayton <langexnet%bbn.cn@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am somewhat new to NetBSD and trying to build a NetBSD desktop to
> see how close I can come to my Debian Linux desktop capabilities (I am
> *really* impressed with how fast one of my java apps runs on
> NetBSD....)
> 
> Skype seems to be my first iceberg.
> 
> Current version in pkgsrc is skype_staticQT-1.2.0.18, which is giving
> me some problems (crappy audio, can't access my USB headphones) that I
> think the latest and greatest skype version 1.4.0.99 might do better
> with.

Inability to talk to your headphones is not likely to be a Skype
problem per se.  Do you hear sound through them when using other
utilities?
> 
> I tried a couple of simple Makefile hacks:
> * changed skype_staticQT-1.2.0.18 to skype_staticQT-1.4.0.99, which
> found nothing to download.
> * changed skype_staticQT-1.2.0.18 to skype-1.4.0.99, which downloaded
> skype-1.4.0.99.tar.bz2 from skype, but had some fatal errors on "make
> install".

What where the errors?  Did you do a "make makedistinfo" to change the
expected checksum?



                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb