[geeks] C compiler won't create executables ..WTF?

[Gregory Leblanc]

Disclaimer: My editor just decided that ALL words are now misspelled, so
there may be a few more typos than usual.

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 22:59, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On 23 May 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > I was actually wondering what was involved with maintaining a part of
> > the ports tree...
> 
> Well, when new versions of the software come out, you get to see what new
> incompatibilities and stupidities lie within.  Plus, if the official
> maintainer of the package doesn't feel like incorporating your
> compatibility fixes, you get to largely start all over because you never
> know -what- might have changed.

If you have a copy of the original source tree around, and a source tree
with your changes, it should be fairly easy to create a diff, and I've
had good luck with those working across at least several versions of the
software.  Though they do eventually seem to break (with mailman, my
patches lasted from the second beta until 2.0.8 before they broke). 
Have you had poor luck with this elsewhere?

> > I'm not that familiar with ports, as I only use BSD for single purpose
> > servers, and thus don't have a lot of software to install.
> 
> I'm excited.  Brian sounds like he's a lot better as a project manager
> than I am, so there's a chance that this might get off the ground.  My
> /usr/src directory contains 162 packages, most of which had to be tweaked
> in some way to work under IRIX.  Being able to use a ports tree instead of
> experimenting with source-code edits and configure.in edits will make life
> -so- much easier.

Heh, no kidding.  Whee, ports!  Now I just need to reinstall my solaris
box, but which version should I use?  :)
	Greg

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