Re: remove vncviewer (given tigervnc)

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%welche.eu@localhost>]

I should have sent an update: regenerating the configure scripts with
new autotools fixes things and I am just testing...

P

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 01:00:35PM +0000, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> Well, I have still to get tigervnc to work reliably on 9.2 (my office
> network currently runs on an old tightvnc version of Xvnc) and I've
> been grateful for net/vncviewer providing a dependable known-to-work
> access method in debugging.  FWIW the Xvnc I use is preserved from 7.x
> and runs for months on end without problems.  The tigervnc version is
> pretty much guaranteed to crash within 48 hours, usually at a most
> inconvenient moment and with no helpful error messages.  Most likely a
> configuration issue I imagine, but I use NetBSD as a platform for
> other things, and value being asble to fall back onto older,
> known-to-work versions when the latest-and-best doesn't drop in
> without major effort.  Which is why, since access to older pkgsrc
> binaries from previous major releases is no longer available, I have to
> be more circumspect in what I rely on.
> 
> 'Legacy software' is a pejorqative term invented by people who want to
> sell you something els.  But if I left you a legacy, why would you
> want to	turn it down or set fire to it?
> 
> "Move fast and break things" always struck me as the philosophy of a
> toddler with ADHD and anger management problems.  "Be smart and build
> better" works better in a collaborative world.  Or, to misquote
> Wittgenstein, "Don't kick the ladder away until you are sure you
> haven't left your toolbag at the bottom".
> 
> Completely OTT as a response to your modest proposal I know, I just
> get philosoiphical around New Year.
> 
> Of which please have a happy one.
> 
> --
> Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>
> 
> > 
> You wrote:
> > net/vncviewer no longer compiles with gcc 14. After fixing the obvious
> > configure script issues, I see errors of the form
> > 
> >   ld: /usr/lib/crt0.o: in function `___start':                                  
> >   /usr/src/lib/csu/common/crt0-common.c:375:(.text+0x377): undefined reference to `main'                                                                      
> >                                                                                 
> > and I find the stdlib.h part of                                                 
> >                                                                                 
> >   c++ -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include #ifdef\ __cplusplus #include\ \<stdlib.h\> #endif -I.. -O2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -Wall -c Exception.cxx                                                                  
> > really bizarre.                                                                 
> >                                                                                 
> > It seems however that vncviewer has developed via a variety of projects into
> > tigervnc. net/tigervnc builds just fine.
> > 
> > I propose therefore to remove vncviewer given that tigervnc is working and
> > in the tree (and with the same licence).
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Patrick
> >