Re: [hackers] Compiling stali

2015-12-10 Thread David Phillips
Did you read the error yourself? Software does not output errors without reason.

[hackers] [sent] [PATCH] Change an eprintf to a die to stop child from running its own slideshow

2015-12-10 Thread David Phillips
The child thread was created because execlp will not return if successful. The eprintf was placed after the call to execlp to catch any error, but the child continued to return a (closed) fds[0], resulting in a second slideshow being run by the child. This commit fixes the issue by killing the

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread Markus Teich
FRIGN wrote: > __You need a library to handle it__ and it's not that much of a popular format > to justify installing a library for it. Heyho, like FRIGN pointed out correctly this patch would negate the effort and goal of the switch to farbfeld. sent with farbfeld uses a separate process

Re: [hackers] Compiling stali

2015-12-10 Thread Harald Weber
Yes I think "conflicts: 43 shift/reduce, 85 reduce/reduce" results in "/bin/sh: 1: gen/maketab: not found" On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:17 AM, David Phillips wrote: > Did you read the error yourself? > > Software does not output errors without reason. >

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:56:38 -0800 Grant Mathews wrote: Hey Grant, > Since the PNM/PAM format already exist as a minimal intermediate > representation with a rich set of commandline tools to manipulate them, > use Netpbm to handle images. back to your desk, Grant,

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread Grant Mathews
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 01:30:52AM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > sent with farbfeld uses a separate process instead of linking to a > library and is therefore more UNIXy and sucks less. This patch still does all the file conversion in a separate process, and sent still uses an external library

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread Grant Mathews
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:39:49PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > Netpbm is arguably almost more complex than BMP and not easy to handle. It's literally the top result when I search for the phrase "simplest image format". I've written PPM loaders by hand in projects too small for a makefile. > We could