Archive for the 'open source' Category

expand your tabs

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

I’ve been back and forth between tabs and spaces for code indentation in recent years. My exposure to Python lead me down the path of spaces, while in the past I had stuck to tabs in my PHP, Perl & Java. When its my own code it’s fine to use whichever I feel is […]

MySQL 4.1 on Gentoo

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

I’ve been running MySQL 4.1 on Gentoo on my dev machines for a little while now without any major hangups. A few people have asked me how to get it emerged because they got hungup by the masks in Gentoo whic prevent them from emerging 4.1 and they gave up after the usual ~x86 […]

gentoo + gcc + libtool

Monday, January 17th, 2005

I had a nasty problem w/ libtool failing because it was looking for the old 3.3.4 gcc version of my libstd++.la instead of 3.3.5. After many hours of mucking around with things trying to find a fix or fix it myself, I finally found this thread which answered my problems:
    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=279136&highlight=libtool+gcc+fail
Basically, running “fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4″ did […]