[Watford] June meet & linux printer driver

walt walt at helvatron.co.uk
Wed Jun 4 16:12:26 BST 2008


Well you have described my (and many others) problem in a nutshell.  I wont
have time now to get all this put together by tomorrow but someone else
might have some compilation issues they can bring along.

I assemble my stuff for the July meeting.  I will also bring along my Suse
10.3 box.

Thanks and see you tomorrow.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Yvan Seth
Sent: 04 June 2008 15:16
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] June meet & linux printer driver

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:30:03PM +0100, Walt wrote:
> Would it possible to organize a future session on this particular
> subject?  It will boring for most of the members but it would a great
> help to me and maybe some others too.

Bring along your non-compiling downloads (or URLs) and we'll do a live
"make it compile" run.  If it is too hard to work out in tomorrow's
meeting then we'll all have some homework for the next one.

Success *not* guaranteed, but someone can probably nut it out. :)

The quality of the build systems provided with projects varies greatly,
on top of this there is usually a lot of *nix assumed knowledge that's
completely obscure to the uninitiated.  I've come across projects, well
known ones, that've taken me a full day to work out.  Popularity is no
guarantee either, some projects we use daily can be a nightmare -
luckily out Linux distros do the hard work for us!

-Yvan

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