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Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock

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On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 00:56:01 -0000 (UTC), pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
wrote in <1095fb1$784s$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 2025-09-01, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> He does seem to do things the hard way.
> A solution looking for a problem IMHO.

Well, one can be kind...he probably doesn't have
sunclock in his distro, hence his big deal about
compiling it.

Hmm, Sigmonster reminds me that I've bought a V.90 modem
with voice capabilities, and it is now the answering machine
on our "POTS" (voip) line.

I used gtts-cli to create the greeting, which is a Python
script that does text-to-speech using Google's API.  You
can write a shell or perl script to create your own IVR.

AT+FCLASS=8
OK
AT+VSM=?
0,"SIGNED PCM",8,0,8000,0,0
1,"UNSIGNED PCM",8,0,8000,0,0
129,"IMA ADPCM",4,0,8000,0,0
130,"UNSIGNED PCM",8,0,8000,0,0
131,"Mu-Law",8,0,8000,0,0
132,"A-Law",8,0,8000,0,0
133,"14 bit PCM",14,0,8000,0,0

I'm using "Mu-Law" (μ-law).

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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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