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| 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) |
| References | <18612b05145ad205$30468$2171756$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <mhlpdoFf5afU1@mid.individual.net> |
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 "Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. 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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