FAM, g++, escalation

Wednesday, 11. 7. 2007  –  Category: all, sw

The full context for this is just too shonky so it’s omitted here. FAM is a file monitoring system from SGI that some Linux distros link their courier-imapd against (the SGI OSS pages for it needs some love, it’s seemingly abandoned). The ‘drop-in’ FAM replacement, gamin, doesn’t provide enough FAMness to fly: Nov  7 14:03:45 localhost […]

No, I’m building JDK *elsewhere*

Tuesday, 10. 2. 2007  –  Category: all, sw, vague

Lousy licensing click throughs: [root@two /usr/ports-work/distfiles ] 0 # curl –referer http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK15JRLConfirm.html -v -d"patchset=6" -d "accept=ACCEPT" -O http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/download_patchset15_jrl.cgi

FreeBSD, ruby 1.8.2, libpthreads

Wednesday, 09. 12. 2007  –  Category: all, vague

Anecdotally people recommend not using libpthread with Ruby on FreeBSD. I’ve duly always told the port to not use it, but ldd has always shown that it’s linked. autoconf insists on configuring the build with it, despite the –disable-pthread flag. My long time response to this was *shrug* – Ruby seems fine. Until a weird […]