The collected works of zappa

It's nice, however I'm running into problems with incompatible libpng version: I have 1.2.15 in my library search path, but you have dynamically linked against 1.0.x. I think it is better to link against a static libpng, I suspect that many users have upgraded their shared libpng, and your version is pretty old. Apart from that, it looks really nice

EDIT: actually, IRIX (6.5.22 at least) itself provides version 1.2.15

You could ask there:

http://www.openqnx.com/

Pretty good QNX community

Hakimoto wrote: Yeah, but what's it with not being able to download the free QNX edition anymore? I checked the other day, but helas, no. Only the eval version. Where you get a licence key for 30 days.

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Yes and no, momentics IDE and advanced development stuff (qcc, mkifs) is evalution (i.e. runs only 30 days), the Neutrino RTOS itself is unlimited, so if you're content with gcc, you can still develop. Though QSSL did put quite a lot development stuff into optional packages If you're looking for the old 6.2.1NC, it's also floating around at OpenQNX

Webmin has frontends for most ftp servers, I use it regularly for proftpd.

There was a not so favorable review in the current c't edition (german computer magazine), if anyone's interested, I can do a short summary of it. Mostly ran along the lines of 'There's no real reason to buy it, at least wait until the application bugs are ironed out'.

Hakimoto wrote: zappa,

link? i wanna read this in german please.

It's not online, unfortunately If you want to buy it as PDF (0.40 EUR), it's available at

http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/05/14/088/

zappa wrote: There was a not so favorable review in the current c't edition

This should be "the previous edition" (14/05), my fault

If you're trying to start directly with C++ (which is better even if you are not into OOP, IMHO), you can also try the Eckel book "Thinking in C++", downloadable here: http://mindview.net/Books (Yup, it's free...)

For C++ programming, GCC is fine. Although it's not very fast, I really like its close conformance to the standard. Just remember to avoid all GCCisms.

Further book recommendations also depend on what you're trying to do (don't know your programming background). You should really have at least one book about algorithms and data structures, e.g. "Algorithms in C++" (Sedgewick) has proved useful in many cases, even if you are not studying CS.

Looks like bash was compiled without --enable-dparen-arithmetic, either because configure thought it not to be supported, or because of an explizit --disable... Release notes don't say anything about it, though...

stuart wrote: This is odd - I've just rebuilt bash from scratch with "--enable-dparen-arithmetic" specifically passed to configure, and yet still the above syntax doesn't work.

This ist strange, since building from scratch works fine for me. Maybe some gccism active there, since I'm building with gcc. Can you take a look into config.h, if DPAREN_ARITHMETIC is indeed defined?

Stonent wrote:
I wonder if they were building with -j8 ?

I'd hate to think that make was running serial jobs rather than parallel on an 8-way system.

AFAIK, OO can't be built with parallel make, maybe it's changed for 2.0. That would be sweet - distcc, here I come

Do you have your language options set to something with ISO8859-15? Try setting it to Latin...-ISO8859-1, I also had that problem with my xterm fonts

You could also try OpenVMS, even though it's not free, either, it's pretty cool - definately something quite different.

Or Cygwin/X, of course...

Dubhthach wrote: Xming as well:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

Unlike Cygwin/X you just install an X-server and don't need any of the cygwin stuff.

Who'd want to miss that stuff on a windows machine? It's the only thing that makes working with it tolerable

EDIT: I'm not sure about OpenGL support in it, anyway. Another option might be XWin-32, running in demo mode (a session can last 2 hours, then it mus be restarted)

actual passwords are usually stored in /etc/shadow, I'm not sure what happens if you delete the :X: marker from /etc/passwd. I think as root you can use the passwd program to change the password to an emtpy one.

AFAIK, you have to build gcc with --with-gnu-ld and --with-ld=<path to your gnu ld> to make this work. Never needed this, though, but for GNU as this works fine.

If you want to rewrite the makefiles, it depends, as always. Just search for lines with -L, -l or ${CC} -o <something that looks like an executable>. Usually the message where ld is bailing out in the build process gives you a clue what to search for.