So Much For Rolling Your Own......

[flatfish+++]

Often we hear about how "easy" it is to compile your own programs under
Linux.
You have the source and all that kind of crap.

Guess it didn't work too well for our boy Roy:

http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/irc-log-social-18062011.html

TechrightsBot-sc Title: Cyrus 2.4 install .::. Size~: 6.42 KB Jun 18
19:44
schestowitz I can gather from it that I need to install zlib, which I
did (even some metapackages associated with it). To quote the exact
compilation error encountered: Jun 18 19:44
schestowitz libimap.a(mailbox.o): In function `cache_append_record': Jun
18 19:44
schestowitz
/home/roy/Main/Misc/Projects/cyrus/cyrus-imapd/imap/mailbox.c:654:
undefined reference to `crc32_buf' Jun 18 19:44
schestowitz libimap.a(mailbox.o): In function `mailbox_cacherecord': Jun
18 19:44
schestowitz
/home/roy/Main/Misc/Projects/cyrus/cyrus-imapd/imap/mailbox.c:628:
undefined reference to `crc32_buf' Jun 18 19:44
schestowitz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Jun 18 19:44
schestowitz make[1]: *** [imapd] Error 1 Jun 18 19:45
schestowitz make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/roy/Main/Misc/Projects/cyrus/cyrus-imapd/imap' Jun 18 19:45
schestowitz make: *** [all] Error 1 Jun 18 19:45
schestowitz The version I try to compile is 2.5 from git. Can anyone
offer some pointers? Jun 18 19:45
schestowitz " Jun 18 19:45
schestowitz Maybe one of you can help? Jun 18 19:45

Notice the leech begging for help.
Real funny when a software developer can't even compile a simple program
under Linux.

--
flatfish+++
Please visit our hall of Linux idiots.
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Watching Linux Fail:
http://limuxwatch.blogspot.com/

Linux's dismal desktop market share:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/05/12/the-top-20-strongholds-for-desktop-linux/

Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead
"By the time Microsoft released the Windows 7 beta
in January 2009, Linux had clearly lost its chance at desktop glory."
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207999/desktop_linux_the_dream_is_dead.html

Desktop Linux on Life Support:

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/is-linux-on-the-desktop-dead--961508

[Hadron]

flatfish+++ <flat...@marianatrench.com> writes:

Like Ahlstrom, he continually accidentally lets it be known he's
actually clueless.

[flatfish+++]

That must have been one easy University to get a degree at.