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Re: GNU/Linux Challenge: Build Sunclock

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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.


-- 
pothead

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 Then our choices make us."
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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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