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Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock

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On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 20:36:34 -0000 (UTC), pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
wrote in <109504i$3far$3@dont-email.me>:

> 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.

That's if you install the binary package.

I built it from sources, which took a little longer, including
patching a problem with the Makefile produced by xmkmf.

(Furled Fart doesn't know how to use that, choosing instead to
use a supplied Makefile for distro lackeys like him.)

>> Is this your first encounter with xmkmf?
> 
> It looks more like his first encounter with Linux itself.
> ROTFLMAO!

If he had trouble with sunclock, imagine what trouble he must
have building vlc from source.

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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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