Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 06:50:49PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hey, that's not fair -- you answered my question before I even asked it! ;-) > But I included my findings below > It is totally fair, as it was part of your original problem statement:

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread rhkramer
Hey, that's not fair -- you answered my question before I even asked it! ;-) But I included my findings below On Friday, December 07, 2018 02:32:13 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:47:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:47:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > As far as what you do next, it should be sufficient to have him swap > > '-lstdc++' for '-static-libstdc++' and then rebuild. That should get > > you a

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:47:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > As far as what you do next, it should be sufficient to have him swap > > '-lstdc++' for '-static-libstdc++' and then rebuild. That should get > > you a

Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > As far as what you do next, it should be sufficient to have him swap > '-lstdc++' for '-static-libstdc++' and then rebuild. That should get > you a working binary. Thanks! The programmer did what you suggested and that

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 07:12:29AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Or, your developer should deliver only portable source to you, and > you compile that yourself. > Which he already said was not a workable solution, as he needs to run on jessie and/or wheezy while the code in question requires a

OT(?) question {Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?}

2018-12-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/06/2018 09:42 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] In my experience, the weakest area for nearly every programmer I meet is build systems. Interestingly enough, I lectured in class today and build systems and their importance. This is a case where understanding some of the "extras" that

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-07 Thread Joe
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 22:37:51 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Of course, looking at what you did, maybe I should get the source of > his changes and then try compiling it myself (in a sid chroot). If you're on sid, you may need to be a little more careful, particularly with kernels. Years

Re: Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-07 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I have always found virtualbox surprisingly easy to set up and use — a lot > of things that as a noob I expected to be hard just weren’t. There’s a > good visual setup screen for creating new VMs and the documentation is > quite good as I recall. > The headless

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > just for the record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the > program and got it working on his Ubuntu system, and created a > binary for me. The problem now is to get the binary to work on my > Wheezy or Jessie

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'll probably try some of this starting tomorrow afternoon, but, just for the > record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the program and got it working > on > his Ubuntu system, and created a binary for me. The

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:11:44 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 08:01:31PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:59:19 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 08:01:31PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:59:19 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Background: > > > > > > I'm involved with having some software written and then

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:59:19 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Background: > > > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:39:22 PM Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:12 AM wrote: > > Background: > > > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie systems -- it > > appears to be an

Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Darn it, forgot to monkey with the headers when replying from gmail... please see intended list reply below. -- Forwarded message - From: Mark Fletcher Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:19 Subject: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? To: On Fri,

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > What would you recommend for the software to run a VM under Jessie (that > would probably run Ubuntu), and can you recommend a fairly simple set of > instructions to first set up the VM, and then at least begin the install > process to that VM. Recently I am using

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie systems -- it appears to > be an outdated libstdc++ that is the problem. > That

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:12 AM wrote: > > Background: > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie systems -- it appears to > be an outdated libstdc++ that is the problem. Before I go the VM route, I would try

Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
Background: I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie systems -- it appears to be an outdated libstdc++ that is the problem. We've tried a few different solutions, including trying to install updated libstdc++