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Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock

From pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock
Date 2025-09-01 20:36 +0000
Organization Muffler Bearings LLC
Message-ID <109504i$3far$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2025-09-01, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:17:10 +0000, Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> wrote in
><18612b05145ad205$30468$2171756$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:
>
>> Attention GNU/Linux advocates!  It's time to prove your stuff.
>> 
>> (What stuff?  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!)
>> 
>> There is a fantastic program called "sunclock" that seems to have fallen
>> out of most distros.  The web site is here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/nongiach/Sunclock
>> 
>> The challenge is to compile this program from the source code.
>> 
>> It may help to use the Debian patches found here:
>> 
>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/sunclock
>> 
>> Sunclock is a great program and it deserves to live and prosper. Yet it
>> is built using the "antiquated" X11 utilities and thus may be endangered
>> by the incursion of that foul junk Wayland.
>> 
>> But, regardless, let's see if you can build it.
>> 
>> I have succeeded.  Here an image as proof.  The time is now Mon Sep  1
>> 09:09:51 AM EDT 2025:
>> 
>> https://i.postimg.cc/VfBtprFz/sunclock.png
>> 
>> This is for a 2K screen.
>> 
>> Note that the pacific coast is still in darkness but the whole of Europe
>> is drenched in sunlight.
>> 
>> So c'mon, advocates.  Let's see you strut your stuff instead of flapping
>> your lips.
>> 
>> (What stuff?  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!)
>
> This is a head-scratcher.  Not because it's difficult, but
> because you would think it is difficult.

It took me 15 seconds, maybe, to install Sunclock and Sunclock Maps.
What's the big deal?
LinuxMint here.


> Is this your first encounter with xmkmf?

It looks more like his first encounter with Linux itself.
ROTFLMAO! 


-- 
pothead

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 Then our choices make us."
-- Anne Frank

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GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-09-01 13:17 +0000
  Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-01 14:37 +0000
    Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-09-01 14:50 +0000
      Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-01 14:55 +0000
        Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-09-01 15:11 +0000
          Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-01 21:48 +0000
    Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-09-01 20:36 +0000
      Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-01 22:49 +0000
        Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-09-02 00:56 +0000
          Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-02 01:06 +0000

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