On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 18:14 +0000, JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net wrote:
Anyway, I want to give Xfractint a try. So the queshun is - can someone point me to the most recent distribution, and if needed, installation instructions?
The latest "stable" version is xfractint-20.04p12. I screwed up the formula parser in patch 13, so don't use it. I have a fix, but then found additional problems when I implemented the savetime function. The source can be found at: http://www.fractint.org/ftp/current/linux/ Download the source tarball (for example: xfractint-20.4p12.tar.gz), put it in your home directory, and untar it with the command: tar -xzf xfractint-20.4p12.tar.gz This will create the directory xfractint-20.4p12 containing the source. You might want to change the directory name to xfractint for convenience. You will need to have gcc installed. You also need the XFree86-libs package installed for the X11 libraries. This package should already be installed, but if it isn't and your distribution doesn't have it, then you need the XFree86-devel package. Also needed is the libxft-dev package. The Makefile is set up for my convenience, so if you want to put files in different directories, you will need to change the SRCDIR setting. Otherwise, just run "make" from the source directory and it should compile. Run ./xfractint to start it up. Or, run "make install" to be able to run xfractint from anywhere. Let me know if you have any problems. Jonathan