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Re: 1.5.12-1: ld (make) Error while compiling
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:21:04AM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn
>> Sent: 14 December 2004 15:38
>
>>Heh, that's why I asked "prasanna hegde" to post his cygcheck. I
>>wanted to publicly mock him when his UID/home path/environment vars
>>revealed his poor attempt at socking-up!
>
>LOL. Ask and ye shall receive. :) Stand by for entertaining
>reactions!
As usual, the solution boils down to the OP just spending thirty seconds
actually *looking* at the problem.
Given the number of pebbles in the road that people in the cygwin
mailing list consider to be insurmountable obstacles, I really shudder
to think about the software that's making it out into the real world.
A large percentage of mainstream software must be full of mispeceptions
and unnecessary workarounds.
Look at the insight mailing list. People who *want a debugger* are
completely stymied by C syntax errors they encounter when trying to
build the debugger. That makes me wonder what in the world they're
going to do with a debugger. Wouldn't they also be blown away by the
first SEGV they hit or the first actual bug in their software?
I can envision the solutions many of these people resort to for fixing
problems:
"Oh. i is supposed to be 47 here and it's 48, so I'll just
subtract 1."
"Oh. I got a SEGV dereferencing ptr. I wonder how that happened. Oh
well. I'll just add a 'if (ptr)'. That should fix it."
"Oh. I'm getting a syntax error and no one on the cygwin list will help
me. Let's see if #if 0/#endif works. Yep. It does."
cgf