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posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 24.05.2009, 17:17

> >> (...)
> > You make him sound like a saint.
>
> >> (...)
> > Now you make him sound like a martyr.
>
> If you had problems with him and don't like the guy, that's your business.

I've never had enough contact with him to decide anything ... except that he is completely disconnected, i.e. not helpful at all. (No guilt or anger is implied there, I just have 0% hope of ever hearing from him again.) I mentioned my troubles with GNU pth (re: p7zip), and he literally said, "Use GDB", nothing more or less. Sorry if I find that less than satisfying.

> But keep in mind that you are too subjective and other people (me, for
> example) had a much better experience with him. Perhaps your lack of
> success is thoroughly explicable considering that sometimes you sound very
> bumptious, which personally I don't like at all.

I have my quirks, but I've never intentionally insulted anyone for lack of cooperation or disgreements in patching / porting / etc. He has no reason to be upset with me (or anyone, AFAICT). I think he's more than likely just too busy, disinterested, etc. Which is fine, just frustrating.

> > If I was more skilled, I would've done more. But sadly I'm limited more
> by
> > that than motivation.
>
> I really appreciate your bare sincerity.

I think it's no secret that I am no great coder. But I hack away on little projects as my interest permits.

> > ffmpeg doesn't interest me at all, sorry. (Besides, why not just
> compile
> > it natively?) Besides, things like that are often difficult to build.
>
> Because the latest DJGPP bash port has problems with ffmpeg's configure
> script, and I have no idea how to edit it.

You say "latest" when I assume you mean either 2.04r2 or 2.05. rr probably could help more as he's more in love with Bash than I am. Or you could ask on news://comp.os.msdos.djgpp (specifically for Andris or Juan although Eli frequents again too).

> As I have already informed, I'm
> not used to GNU tools' script syntax and I have no time to learn it now.
> With a Linux DJGPP cross-compiler a simple "configure" followed by "make"
> would be enough (I don't know, I just suppose ;-) ). WT* do you find
> difficult here?

I doubt it. Anyways, I've never cross-compiled for DJGPP from Linux before (which I don't actively use, BTW, just dabbled in booting a few liveCDs here and there). In case you haven't noticed (and I did refresh my memory just now rebuilding BinUtils 2.19.1 "for fun"), GNU tools use a ridiculously complicated build process, and most Linux stuff is no different.

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