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* Another Success With GNU/Linux!Farley Flud
`- Re: Another Success With GNU/Linux!Stéphane CARPENTIER

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Subject: Another Success With GNU/Linux!
From: Farley Flud
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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:04 UTC
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A new version of dictd, 1.13.3, is available. Gentoo, due to
unfortunate manpower shortages (not enough volunteers), has lost
the maintainer for dictd and so I had to build it myself.

It failed. There were crazy errors:

clientscan.c: No such file or directory

WTF!

Now, clientscan.c is actually created from clientscan.l via
the flex scanner but somehow flex was not doing its job.

I went back to the configure output (this is an autoconf build):

checking for flex... flex
checking for lex output file root... lex.yy
checking for lex library... none needed
checking for library containing yywrap... no
configure: WARNING: yywrap not found; giving up on flex

WTF!

Flex contains "yywrap" but somehow the configure script wasn't
able to find it.

Rather than work through all that autoconf gobbledygook I just
decided to modify the Makefile. That's because configure set
one variable in the Makefile to NULL due to not finding yywrap:

LEX = flex

That's all it took! The package then built with no errors!

Ha, ha, ha!

I suppose that the developers of dictd fucked up the autoconf
script because they are moving to a different build system
called mk-configure:

https://github.com/cheusov/mk-configure

I consider mk-configure to be even more of a clusterfuck
than autoconf.

But this is why I LOVE GNU/Linux. There is always challenging
excitement happening.

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

Subject: Re: Another Success With GNU/Linux!
From: Stéphane CARPENTIER
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Le 22-12-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
> A new version of dictd, 1.13.3, is available. Gentoo, due to
> unfortunate manpower shortages (not enough volunteers), has lost
> the maintainer for dictd and so I had to build it myself.

And what do you do about it? You claim to be the best programmer
involved in everything that matters. You should have be able to fix it
by yourself and to provide the solution to others. It should have taken
you less time to do it than to send this message.

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