Re: Firefox updater hate

On 14-Nov-2007, at 13:45, Timothy Knox wrote: Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:23:14PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: If you were on UNIX, then Firefox may be hatefully using Windows behavior inappropriately. That's a bug. No, I was on Mac OS X, same as you. In this case

Re: libtool

Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:43:06AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > To quote A. Pagaltzis: > "It's portable -- it works on Debian *and* RedHat!" Reminds me of the scene from the original Blues Brothers movie, when they sneak into getting a gig at Bob's Country Bunker,

Re: Firefox updater hate

Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:23:14PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 13-Nov-2007, at 01:43, Timothy Knox wrote: > >But let me clue you in on how GUIs work in the 21st century. > >Nowadays, when an > >application highlights a button as a default, hitting return is > >

Re: libtool

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > When used correctly, libtool is better than the alternatives, Hahaha. If only. I still can't get libtool-using programs to link against the libraries I want them to, not the ones libtool wants, with any kind of reliability. It's usually easier to re-do

Re: Firefox updater hate

* Robert Rothenberg [2007-11-14 17:05]: > * Uppity > Navigate up one or more levels. So if you're at > http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz.html but there's no link to > an upper level, let alone the root, you can quickly go to it. I use Digger

Re: Firefox updater hate

On 14/11/07 03:54 A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Juerd Waalboer [2007-11-13 20:05]: >> I'm posting this to the list just to annoy people who are >> against using hates-software for providing fixes ;) > > Heh, well, I got a half-dozen off-list requests, so I figure > there's enough interest to justify an

Re: libtool

On 14-Nov-2007, at 08:45, Benjamin Reed wrote: Heh, well, I just started on 3 months ago and the first thing I took on was making installation Not Suck(TM). OpenNMS has traditionally been a bitch and a half to install, but now we have Yum repos, maintained debian packages, and I'm happy to s

Re: libtool

> it was actually easier getting that beggar working on FreeBSD than on > the "wrong" version of Red Hat. > Oh. That brings back memories not unlike crawling on all fours on broken class. In saltwater. With electric eels. What was I doing? Oh, right: trying to install Slashcode. In Su

Re: libtool

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter da Silva wrote: > I guess either you slogged through the valley of hate, or OSX is as > important to the maintainers of libtool as Linux is, so it gets fixes. We had someone step up and help out by submitting patches, and libtool accepted them.

Re: libtool

On 14-Nov-2007, at 07:57, Benjamin Reed wrote: I have. Lots. I'm one of the maintainers for Fink (a Mac OS X "distribution") and I've been porting stuff to OSX since 2001. OSX has linker quirks as weird as AIX's (and shares AIX's "shared libraries != loadable modules" mentality). Early on,

Re: libtool

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > You are kidding, right? Have you actually tried building anything > large enough to warrant libtool somewhere not in Linux? In general I have. Lots. I'm one of the maintainers for Fink (a Mac OS X "distribution") and I'

Re: libtool

Ahh, so we can add Fink to the list of supported things for libtool? Very soothing thought. I'm still stuck with AIX though, and that is not by choice. I have no plans to work with Fink. Guess Fink isn't designed for OS's like HP-UX and AIX. I treat those auto* programs as part of the "portable

Re: [offlist] Re: Firefox updater hate

Hi Philip, * Philip Newton [2007-11-14 09:35]: > On Nov 14, 2007 4:54 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Open in browser > > http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/ > > Ah - wonderful! I used to have an extension installed for this, > but it wasn't compatible with 2.x. glad to help. :-) Regards, -- Ari

Re: libtool

Benjamin Reed wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >> On 13/11/2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >>> The header says it all >> Indeed. While we're at it, here's what my rss reader fed me this morning: >> http://udrepper.livejournal.com/19395.html >> S

Re: libtool

H.Merijn Brand wrote: > Ahh, so we can add Fink to the list of supported things for libtool? > Very soothing thought. I'm still stuck with AIX though, and that is > not by choice. I have no plans to work with Fink. Guess Fink isn't > designed for OS's like HP-UX and AIX. You're right, it's not. I

Re: libtool

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:04:21AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: >* Benjamin Reed [2007-11-14 05:55]: >> Spoken like a true developer with a Linux-centric worldview. >It's portable -- it works on Debian *and* RedHat! No, that might take some slight effort; these days it's RHell _and_ Fedora. R

[offlist] Re: Firefox updater hate

On Nov 14, 2007 4:54 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Open in browser > http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/ > > When a server sends a file with a MIME type Firefox doesn't > recognise, such as `text/x-diff` or `text/x-perl`, the only > options you get are passing it to another app or saving it to >

Re: libtool

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:50:06 -0800, Benjamin Reed wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > On 13/11/2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > >> The header says it all > > > > Indeed. While we're at it, here's what my rss reader fed me this morning: > >

Re: libtool

* Benjamin Reed [2007-11-14 05:55]: > Spoken like a true developer with a Linux-centric worldview. It's portable -- it works on Debian *and* RedHat! Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: libtool

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 13/11/2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >> The header says it all > > Indeed. While we're at it, here's what my rss reader fed me this morning: > http://udrepper.livejournal.com/19395.html > Some good libtool hate by the gl

Re: Firefox updater hate

* Juerd Waalboer [2007-11-13 20:05]: > I'm posting this to the list just to annoy people who are > against using hates-software for providing fixes ;) Heh, well, I got a half-dozen off-list requests, so I figure there's enough interest to justify an on-list posting anyway. * Fix for bug 348031