"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Aggghhhh!!! God damnnit, I officially fucking hate linux now... (not that > I'm a win, mac or bsd fan, but whatever...) > > I temporarily gave up trying to actually get ahold of an old distro, so I > tried the other angles (not counting just simply *wishing* it was like win > and I could just copy the damn binary over to another linux box...nooo, > that would be too simple for a unix-style system): > > I got my web host to switch me to a server that has 32-bit libs installed > (a pain in and of itself because I had to coordinate with a client to find > a convenient downtime, and then I ended up needing to change my domain's > DNS entires, so now my whole domain's down for a couple days)...And it > make no difference. So I guess in my particular case it wasn't a > 32-bit/64-bit issue at all (or maybe there still would have been that > problem too, I dunno). > > So I went to try uClibc: > > I started my Linux box...and it decides to hang mid-startup. So I reboot > and at least this time the dumb thing finishes booting (I had problems > with linux randomly breaking for no apperent reason ten years ago with > Mandrake and Red Hat. I can't believe it's still happening now). > > Anyway, at the uClibc site, I saw the "simple steps" here: > http://uclibc.org/toolchains.html and thought "Uhh, hell no, not if I > don't have to" and went to the link for the pre-built verison instead. The > link was broken. Then the page says those are really old versions anyway. > Great :/ > > So I go through the steps: I get to the part where I download buildroot. > Copy/paste the link over to my linux box...and discover that Synergy+ has > suddenly decided it no longer feels like offering the "shared clipboard" > feature that always worked before. > > Ok, so I type the URL into my linux box manually, download buildroot, > unpack it...so far so good...and follow the instruction to run "make > menuconfig"...BARF. It fails with some error about ncurses being missing, > and that I should get ncurses-devel. "sudo apt-get install ncurses-devel": > Can't find package. "sudo apt-get install ncurses": Can't find package. > "sudo apt-get install fuck-shit-cock": Can't find package. > > Google "ncurses deb package". Actually found it. Download. Run...You ready > for this? Here's the message: "Error: A later version is already > installed." SERIOUSLY?! > > This is the point where I would normally say "fuck this shit", but the > thought of continuing to use PHP (even if it is via Haxe) is enough to > keep me bashing my head against this wall. Next stop: See if I can get > ahold of *some* version of CentOS and see if using that in a VM will > manage to work. (And rip Kubuntu off my Linux box and see if I can replace > it with Debian+XFCE. How is it possible that GNOME and KDE were both > fairly ok ten years ago, at least as far as I can remember, but the latest > versions of both are complete shit? And then there's that iOS garbage that > Ubuntu is moving to now (The one main thing I've always disliked about > Ubuntu is their incompresensible Apple-envy, which only seems to be > increasing). And fuck, the latest KDE actually makes the Win7 UI seem good > (at least the Win7 UI actually *works* and has some semblance of > consistency, even as obnoxious as it is), and I could have sworn that KDE > never used to be so completely broken before. Or broken at all, for that > matter. Which is too bad, because Dolphin actually shows some promise...at > least when it isn't doing the > random-horizontal-scrolling-for-no-apparent-reason dance.) >
Yay! I've just had some success! I managed to find this: http://vault.centos.org/ Which has all the CentOS ISOs. (You'd think I would have had an easier time finding that URL...) I downloaded 4.2 (picked pretty much at random), installed it in VirtualBox, compiled a trivial test C program in the included GCC, uploaded that to the server, and it worked! :) Next step: Install DMD on this CentOS VM and try for a D cgi... And then later, I may try 4.7, see if that'll work for me too. And I still have another web host I need to get CGI working on (although that one has some pretty bad support, so I'm a little nervous about that). But it's looking good so far. Finegrs crossed... I'd be nice to not have to use a VM to compile, of course. But as long as I can I have some way to do my server-side web stuff in D, and *completely* sidestep the entire PHP runtime, then it'll certainly still be well worth it.
