Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/8/11, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/8/2011 9:45 AM, John Hodrien wrote: I was curious, so *did* find out what the cause was, and it's entirely not CentOS's fault. It's very hard to shoot blindly given that the cause was

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-10 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/8/11, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/8/2011 9:45 AM, John Hodrien wrote: I was curious, so *did* find out what the cause was, and it's entirely not CentOS's fault. It's very hard to shoot blindly given that the cause was likely not to be CentOS. That only left his

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/8/2011 9:45 AM, John Hodrien wrote: I was curious, so *did* find out what the cause was, and it's entirely not CentOS's fault. It's very hard to shoot blindly given that the cause was likely not to be CentOS. That only left his autoconf files, and tracing configure made it quite easy

[CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
Below is a repost of the message I sent about the strange error message I was getting when trying to build my project on CentOS. I am a software developer and don't have time to compare distros. I am also not an autotools expert. The autotools files in my project were lmade by others. It

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread lhecking
The only thing I can do is explain how to reproduce the error. However, this would be time-consuming for anyone trying to do so. Sorry, I think You are already wasting everybody's time here. There are people on this list willing to help but you keep waffling without providing even the

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/8/11, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: Below is a repost of the message I sent about the strange error message I was getting when trying to build my project on CentOS. I am a software developer and don't have time to compare distros. You claim to be a software developer

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Mr Hodrien already demonstrated how to provide the information. Could you not at least follow suit, copy and paste the relevant commands leading up to the problem? If you had done so, he would had known the problem occurred after that point and

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: You claim to be a software developer so surely you realize the importance of relevant information to assist in debugging/troubleshooting. Yet what you're doing is the equivalent of complaining My program won't run, it just stops with an error at this point, then

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Mauriat Miranda
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: snip Building a simple test case in this situation is as simple as narrowing down the steps and changes leading to the problem. Your refusal to provide relevant information probably wasted more time than anything

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: snip Building a simple test case in this situation is as simple as narrowing down the steps and changes leading to the problem. Your refusal to provide relevant information

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Brunner, Brian T. wrote: This suggests, to me, cutting a little slack for the man. About his hearing implant, which enables him to hear sound but not understand speech: If I am in a noisy place it is nice to be able to turn off my hearing. I have wished I could switch off my hearing, MANY

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Brunner, Brian T. wrote: This suggests, to me, cutting a little slack for the man. About his hearing implant, which enables him to hear sound but not understand speech: If I am in a noisy place it is nice to be able to turn off my hearing. I have wished I could

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/8/11, Mauriat Miranda mli...@mjmwired.com wrote: I was tempted to read his website. He is a 75 yr old man who is deaf and blind. I knew that, checked it when he first started on the list. Knowing that he was doing this work despite being deaf and blind was why I even bothered to respond.

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/08/11 10:20 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: ...does[n't] stop him from doing development, it shouldn't stop him from doing something like copy and paste. A couple weeks ago, on a technical support IRC forum (I forget if it was #solaris or #postgres or what), some guy came on and wanted us

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread John J. Boyer
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:29:18PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: As I can see, liblouisxml does not exist neither for Fedora and CentOS (EPEL) so it would be good if someone could make sure spec file is created and some maintainer takes over (existing of the

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/9/11, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/08/11 10:20 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: ...does[n't] stop him from doing development, it shouldn't stop him from doing something like copy and paste. A couple weeks ago, on a technical support IRC forum (I forget if it was #solaris

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/9/11, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: I don't believe it is possible to copy and paste the text from many error message popups (I am pretty certain you can't from a standard Of course, for those cases, I understand perfectly why somebody would opt to take a screenshot. In the

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: window and send that. I guess far too many people have been trained away from textual interactions with a computer -- they only understand *graphical* interaction with a computer. I guess you are right about that. But what's really sad is that it is not just the