when brickbats or fox exposes the folly of government they do so to
accomplish a specific end; dumping truckload after truckload of bad acts
proves their point: stupidity and greed typify government, therefore any
government is too much government.
-----Original Message-----
From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com]On Behalf Of John
Hall
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 5:03 PM
Cc: 'FoRK'
Subject: RE: Our friends the Palestinians, Our servants in government.
Yes, you read the links.
Sorry, but exposing folly is not only humorous but also instructive.  It
is only by exposing folly to ridicule that you stop it in the first
place.
'Brickbats' leans heavily on both, though the item I highlighted was a
'horror' item not a 'gee that is stupid' item.  For an example of the
latter, see the city that wanted a woman to pay a ticket for parking in
an UNmarked no-parking space.
> From: Geege Schuman [mailto:geege@barrera.org]
>
> see my first line: I READ THE LINKS.  brickbats.  idiot.

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On 14:22 29 Aug 2002, Matthias Saou <matthias@egwn.net> wrote:
| Once upon a time, Axel wrote :
| > I am now relaxed again ;), and pass this info on. Probably Matthias Saou
| > himself is "dude", and some package has hardwired a path in his build
| > directory. It would be nice to find out which and fix it, but I am using
| > too many of the freshrpm suite to narrow it down.
|
| Indeed, my usual login is "dude" (and has been since long before "The Big
| Lebowsky" came out ;-)), and it seems the some programs wrongly hard code
| my home directory when being compiled :-(
| For instance :
|
| [dude@python dude]$ strings /usr/bin/gentoo | grep dude
| /home/dude/
| [dude@python dude]$ strings /usr/bin/xine | grep dude
| /home/dude/redhat/tmp/xine-root/usr/share/locale
|
| These should probably be considered bugs in the program's build process
| (especially for xine, look at that!), I'll report them upstream if/when I
| have some time.
This is a standard trap for people building things from source. It's
generally wise to have a special "build" environment to avoid these
hassles. Most likely you have some library loading path in your env. An
strace of the app will show it:
the-app 2>&1 | grep dude
Personally, I have a script called logbuild whose entire purpose is to
start a shell with a minimal build environment, logged with script. The
prevents this kind of error. Since configure yanks all sorts of ill
documented values from one's environment for use in the build (CC, ARCH,
various LD_* variables) this kind of thing is necessary.
Often the easiest thing is to have a special nonroot account with no .profile
for building stuff.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Do not taunt Happy Fun Coder.
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