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To:  WvStreams Mailing List <wvstreams-devel@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Want compile wvstreams statically with wvdial
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:23:39 -0700
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Hi, I a developer for Puppy Linux, which is a tiny distro (about 90MB
live-CD) that loads totally into RAM. Programs are chosen that are
small, and we have been using wvdial v1.42 as it is so small. It works
for us, but we can't compile it anymore -- and I don't understand the
error message -- it's designed for an older C++ compiler.

Wvdial 1.42 is only 84K complete, whereas I have just compiled v1.56
and wvstreams v4.3 -- the executable and libraries total 1510KB! So, I
thought I would try to compile wvstreams statically into wvdial, but I
can't figure out how to do it.

In Puppy Linux we have our own discovery of the modem, so we don't
need any of that, all we need is a dialer, which is probably why the
v1.42 is still okay for us for modern pci and usb softmodems.
So, I was wondering if a wvdial developer would help us out and figure
out why it no longer compiles.

Alternatively, if there are pressing reasons why we should go for a
more recent version, would it be possible to have a configure option
to compile wvstreams statically with wvdial?
Even better would be a reduced wvdial that just does the dialing and
negotiating with the isp, etc., with all discovery stuff removed.

Is anyone interested in getting involved with any of this?
You can read about Puppy here: http://www.puppylinux.com, also
http://www.puppylinux.org
My developer blog: http://www.puppylinux.com/news/

Regards,
Barry Kauler