root partition full

wished fedora started handling a full harddisk more elegantly (dunno which directory is the problem there .. /tmp ?, /var ?) ... just getting thrown back to the login prompt without an error message is kinda rude. always takes me a few minutes to figure out what's wrong.

more ogre

some of the samples also didn't compile.
had to remove the line containing d_identifierString
in OgreCEGUIRenderer.cpp
with the next sample that wouldn't compile i just removed it from the Makefile.am

make install brought new problems:
cannot stat `.libs/libOgreMain.lai' etc.
just copied the libOgreMain.la file and changed the installed to installed=yes

ogre

tried to install ogre3d release 1.2 (dagon) today (fedora core 4 box).
i remembered ogre being quite fickle to get running so i wasn't surprised to hit a few problems:
it wanted a /usr/lib/libmng.la file but libmng has stopped using libtool and current versions don't have it anymore.
wrote one myself that looks like this:
dlname='libmng.so.1'
library_names='libmng.so.1.0.0 libmng.so.1 libmng.so'
old_library='libmng.a'
dependency_libs=' -lm -ljpeg -lz'
current=1
age=0
revision=9
installed=yes
shouldnotlink=no
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''
libdir='/usr/lib'

irrlicht

irrlicht looks like a nice 3d engine. getting it to compile (or link) on my fedora core 4/nvidia setup required a little fix though:
in COpenGLDriver.cpp line 447 to 451 i had to remove all lines short of the #define IRR_OGL_LOAD_EXTENSION glXGetProcAddressARB one.
works fine now. the examples should perhaps be a bit easier to quit.