[Gambas-user] gb3: unable to compile on Debian Wheezy (testing)

[doriano.blengino at ...1909...]

Bruce Bruen ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 01:19 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
>> Hopefully the Debian or Mint team will get this mess sorted out so gb3 
>> can compile without hacks. Thanks for the help anyway, and for anyone 
>> else who sees GNOME as the walking dead, I highly recommend Kubuntu or 
>> any other well-supported KDE distribution. I should have done this a 
>> long time ago.
>>
>>     
> I feel your pain but it has sparked my interest following both your and
> Demosthenes Koptsis posts. I think that there are a few issues here that
> I may be able to offer some helpful comments on.
>   
Hi Bruce,

I liked your post, and your coloured english (especially those dinosaurs 
starting to feel chilly) :-)

I totally agree with you - there are some standards and they should be 
respected in the interest of all the community. In particular, given 
that a libray in */lib (but the same is for include files and 
executables in */bin) *cannot* be 32 bit and 64 bit at the same time, it 
is clear that a file system is linked to the processor which uses it (at 
least for the processor-dependent files). There are in fact special 
directories for system-independent files.

If some mind-broken distributions want to kill simplicity by creating 
unnecessary directories, they should use symlinks. Ok, they could forget 
to set up them (this would be a "bug" for me).

That said, I would add that a user should know the bases for using his 
computer. This means that if a user downloads some sources with svn and 
compiles them, he should be able to interpret simple make's errors like 
"file not found", without asking the author of the sources "why can't I 
compile your software?". Reading documents and learning things is 
satisfactory and good for any user. Lacking of doing this leads to think 
that the guilty one is always someone else: the distribution, the 
compiler, the author of the sources, the mailing lists giving wrong 
advice and so on. There is too much people that press a button and 
expect that everything goes well like magic and, if something goes 
wrong, not even ask themselves what they could do to solve. Speaking 
about computers, "magic" will be never possible...
No offence intended - I understand that the matter of compiling things 
under *nix could be a good choice for a bestseller.

Marginally, I noted those complains about Debian and Gnome. Probably no 
distributions are perfect, but surely Debian is one of the most 
respectable - I simply love it because of its vision. By the way, KDE is 
available in Debian. And about KDE, I just switched from it to Gnome 
some months ago, and I don't regret. I never tried the latest Gnome, but 
it is hard for me to think that it is only crap.

Regards,
Doriano