On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:16:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:20:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:00:17AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > I tried my first minor build of an unusual program [that only a
> > > > CLI geek like me would use]. But can't find the mkmf that I've
> > > > used for years. I haven't found anything comparable in the
> > > > Linux world. Has anybody else out there gotten our old '93 src
> > > > mkmf installed on Linux?
> > >
> > > Even on FreeBSD mkmf 4.11 needs some patching to compile (as evidenced by
> > > the
> > > devel/mkmf port), so I expect same goes for Linux. Maybe the FreeBSD
> > > patches
> > > work?
> > >
> > > Roland
> >
> > We'll see. I have entirely forgotten howto use
> > uuencode/uudecode [!!] -- well, it's been at least 13 years--so
> > carefully transferring things by hand.
>
> Why not use netcat or rsync? Or copy the files to a USB stick to transfer it?
> Haven't had use for uuencode for at least a decade.
>
> > Anyway, there is the 32 and 64 bit issues... .
>
> Compiles and runs fine here on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64, except for a warning
> about mktemp.
>
> > gary
> >
> > PS: be nice to see [*esp'ly* ubuntu] get with it; maintain the
> > older stuff. Even if it was back in the Eozoic:)
>
> A lot of people use the blighted evil twins autoconf and automake. Writing
> plain makefiles seems to be relegated to us greybeards these days. :-) and
> while a tool like mkmf is fine, I stick to my own makefile templates that I've
> developed over the years.
>
I finally got uuencode working. Thanks to a cheatsheet an
Indiana U. [[I *just barely remember ``uuencode tarball.tar
tarball.tar > file.uue'']] --I mean, come ON, the man page and
the useage() instructions are so far off, it isn't funny.--
Porting the rest by-hand.
*mumble*
> Roland
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