Is your OS ready for E17 (Enlightenment DR17)?

Unfortunately my FreeBSD 4.10 is not :(

E17 needs C99 support, and FreeBSD 4.10 wasn’t ready for that. Even after my compilation was successful (there was no check for C99 support before, now it does), the display was corrupt. The background is white, mouse cursor nowhere to be seen, menus were unreadable.

The basic printf “%a” format support was missing in FreeBSD 4.10 which was required by E17. Try this simple program on your OS:


#include <stdio .h>

int main()
{
        printf(”%a\n”, 13);
        printf(”%A\n”, 13);

        return 0;
}

If the output is “a and A”, then E17 is not for you ;-)
Tell your favorite OS to move to supporting C99, its been 7 years since it was made into the standards.

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