It works for me, so it's not *100%* broken, surely...
And I'm pretty sure your very first message indicated that you *are* using
Ubuntu (or at least something so heavily Ubuntu-derived that the kernel
name still has 'Ubuntu' in it).
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Jai Dayal <dayals...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "
> - Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools [the title];
> - Do you people not know how to actually use autotools to avoid this from
> happening? Seriously, this isn't advanced stuff.
> - Your makefile is completely inconsistent.
> - Wow. you all have *no idea* how to write a makefile
> - This is ridiculous.
> - I know in your world, simple "restart the computer" solutions work, but
> in the real world, they rarely work.
> - Any competent programmer would know that [...]
> - You have no idea about what you're talking.
> "
>
> Not sure what you're trying to say.
>
> Nothing I've said here is false.
>
> "
>
> Here's what I could find by searching for "compiling Scid under Ubuntu":
>
> http://blog.thameera.com/installing-scid-in-ubuntu-linux/";
>
> I'm not using Ubuntu. Irrelevant.
>
> "
>
> This seems to work. Perhaps the problem resurfaced recently:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/338017/scid-chess-program-compiling-issue";
>
> This is irrelevant;
>
> 1) I'm not using Ubuntu.
>
> 2) I've already gotten it to configure. I've stated this.
>
> Here is the output I get after I've configured this:
>
> configure: Makefile configuration program for Scid
> Renaming "Makefile" to "Makefile.bak"
> Tcl/Tk version: 8.5
> Your operating system is: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic
> Checking if your system already has zlib installed: yes.
> Using Makefile.conf.
> The Makefile configured for your system was written.
> Multi-threading enabled (if you have problems try ./configure THREADS="").
> Now just type "make" to compile Scid.
>
>
> "But you claimed the solution was not advanced stuff."
>
> Using autotools for your own project is not a problem and is trivial. scid
> is not my project, so I don't know the compilation dependencies, nor as a
> user, should I be required to.
>
> Why can't you just admit that your little script is 100% broken?
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Ben St-Pierre <benbon...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm stating a fact:
>>
>>
>> Many facts, in fact:
>>
>> - Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools [the title];
>> - Do you people not know how to actually use autotools to avoid this
>> from happening? Seriously, this isn't advanced stuff.
>> - Your makefile is completely inconsistent.
>> - Wow. you all have *no idea* how to write a makefile
>> - This is ridiculous.
>> - I know in your world, simple "restart the computer" solutions work,
>> but in the real world, they rarely work.
>> - Any competent programmer would know that [...]
>> - You have no idea about what you're talking.
>>
>> Please confirm that these were meant as factual observations.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> I'm sorry you have to waste time solving this stupid problem, Jai. But you
>> claimed the solution was not advanced stuff. Yet the obvious solutions
>> you found do not work.
>>
>> Here's what I could find by searching for "compiling Scid under Ubuntu":
>>
>> http://blog.thameera.com/installing-scid-in-ubuntu-linux/
>>
>> This seems to work. Perhaps the problem resurfaced recently:
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/338017/scid-chess-program-compiling-issue
>>
>> (The instructions quoted by the querent are deprecated.)
>>
>> If you can improve that page that would be appreciated.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> If you can improve the configuration process, so much the better.
>>
>> How would you automate all this?
>>
>>
>
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