I’ve got an old Asus Eee netbook that I run Debian on, since as much as I love Gentoo, I wouldn’t want to compile anything on that Atom N280 – and I’m too lazy to setup distcc. Unfortunately, the beast tends to fall victim to chronic MCEs, almost systematically in the course of apt-get operation. […]
So I was trying to version bump the ebuild for dev-tcltk/tcllib-1.15-r1 into dev-tcltk/tcllib-1.16 (I needed tcl::chan::string 1.0.2 instead of 1.0.1). tcllib comes with a cartload of man pages, some of which have names which conflict with Tcl ones. Thus, as is the case for dev-tcltk/tcllib-1.15-r1, I needed to remove/rename them in the ebuild. Those that […]
Disclaimer: I’m a total newbie to all this executable file format stuff. Slowly learning! The strings command lists all sufficiently long printable character strings in a file. I recently found myself needing to locate a string found in an ELF executable in the memory of the running program. strings did its job just fine in […]
dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8 fails to emerge with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo] (required for CUDA), complaining that it does not find tgetent: configure: ** checks for libraries checking for library containing tgetent… no configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8/work/clisp-2.49/builddir’: configure: error: despite –with-readline, GNU readline was not found (try –with-libreadline-prefix) See `config.log’ for more details. * ERROR: dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8::gentoo failed (configure phase): * ./configure […]
When cloning a repository with the Fossil SCM, the fossil command-line tool outputs something along these lines: admin-user: quentin (password is “1fa55b”) I wondered whether I needed to note down yet another password, and what it was required for. So I googled a bit, and it turns out (from the Password Management page in the […]
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