IRC log for #brlcad on 20100207

00:00.01 yukonbob hrmm...
00:00.25 yukonbob well, if it doesn't need work, there's no point in tweaking it :/
00:02.39 louipc erik said that the one included in brl-cad is an old one
00:03.01 yukonbob <PROTECTED>
00:03.08 louipc so I assume older than old, so I thought that was funny
00:53.10 starseeker mutters under his breath - now he gets to find out how mature support is for amd64 in gentoo
00:53.37 starseeker if the snow ever melts, anyway... wow
01:34.38 starseeker heh, awesome quote: The IBM Model M keyboard - it's like a gigantic tailpipe for geeks.
01:52.39 ``Erik looks like BRL-CAD has jove 2.1, the latest JOVE release was 4.16.0.70 in '06,
01:54.40 ``Erik looks like there're references in our fork going back to '83
01:57.20 ``Erik starseeker: fbsd rocks the opteron :D
01:58.12 ``Erik (iirc, jove existed in the BRL-CAD repo a couple years before actual BRL-CAD code was checked in...)
02:30.21 starseeker ``Erik: well, with a 1 terabyte drive I can probably afford a few extra partitions for alternatives
02:30.49 starseeker would like to figure out how to dual-boot the Windows 7 to save it, but doesn't know if it's practical
02:30.51 ``Erik some systems stop at 4
02:30.55 starseeker may not have install disks
02:31.39 ``Erik thinks he has a 95b disk if ya want
02:31.43 starseeker cheaped out - wasn't prepared to pony up for a workhorse
02:31.46 starseeker heh
02:32.01 starseeker I mean the install disks for Win 7
02:32.15 starseeker doesn't know if the partition can be shrunk successfully
02:32.24 ``Erik I MIGHT have some dos and win3.1 floppies somewhere, but I'd have to dig
02:32.48 starseeker <snort> Yeah, let's see you compile BRL-CAD on Win 3.1 - I dare ya ;-)
02:33.01 ``Erik heh
02:33.22 starseeker ponied up the money to get two of the modern USB variations of the Model M
02:33.22 ``Erik I'd rather spend my time on a far more useful and modern system, like bsd43 on a vax11/780 :D should find that disk image...
02:33.33 starseeker Unicomp Customizer 101 or some such
02:33.39 ``Erik never liked the old ibm M
02:33.51 starseeker really?
02:33.57 starseeker loves it
02:34.09 starseeker (everyone in the same room hates it, of course...)
02:34.18 ``Erik I DO like the old sun type5, the 'jelly' apple kbd I use at work, the mid 90's mitsumi precision pro and the old c64
02:34.36 ``Erik see, I like a quiet light touch but fast responding kbd
02:34.46 starseeker saw an npr piece from June 09 indicating that the company was having trouble making ends meet, so figured to get 'em while they still had 'em
02:35.07 starseeker heh, actually one of the two I got was a quiet version
02:35.24 ``Erik the type5 had a decent 'feel', plus it had keys in the right place
02:35.37 ``Erik np caps lock, escape by the 1, ctl by the a...
02:35.46 starseeker nods
02:36.18 ``Erik the apple kbd's pressure ramp is a bit stiff at first for me
02:36.21 starseeker I think it's partially what you're used to - Sarah hates my original Model M, but I'm not too crazy about this relativly tiny Mac keyboard
02:36.42 ``Erik could be worse, I'm using a macbook kbd right now :(
02:36.47 starseeker ow
02:36.54 ``Erik the keys are completely flat and spaced apart
02:37.36 starseeker would have cheerfully hung adapters on his original Model M to the end of time, but eventually I'll buy a machine without a PS/2 slot and apparently the old keyboards draw a bit too much power for USB
02:37.56 ``Erik indianlarry put his mac on a kvm and is using a dull kbd, so'z I stoleded his apple kbd for home O.O
02:38.01 ``Erik heh
02:38.05 starseeker hehe
02:38.13 ``Erik my mitsumi pro is a big honkin' din plug into a ps/2 adapter
02:38.23 ``Erik and I'm pondering putting THAT into a usb adapter to keep using it
02:38.32 starseeker that's what I researched
02:38.49 starseeker dunno about the mitsumi, but if it's a power hog it can be a problem
02:39.28 ``Erik doubt it is, it's a pretty basic membrane with the little 8k series controller
02:39.53 ``Erik http://jope.fi/amiga/amikbd/mitsumi128top.jpg
02:40.15 ``Erik with different caps, that's a bit...amigified
02:41.01 starseeker yeah, that looks pretty mild
02:41.10 ``Erik also, mine's really nasty and dirty, been quite a while since I've cleaned it... :D used to tear it aprt and throw most of it in the dishwasher once every few years
02:41.12 starseeker likes keyboards that could pass for military hardware :-P
02:41.32 starseeker nods - my keyboard's long overdue for that, I'm sure
02:42.30 ``Erik lucked out with the mitsumi, bought it in the mid 90's as a 'cheap' kbd from sears, but the keys don't rattle or jiggle and it's still going strong
02:43.14 starseeker that was a luckout - I kinda remember that era for it's really cheap crappy Gateway keyboards
02:43.23 ``Erik heh, yeah
02:43.23 starseeker university had a bunch - drove me nuts
02:43.46 ``Erik the place I worked in the late 90's, we had boxes full of cheap keyboards, would regularly break them, throw one out and take another out of the box
02:43.55 starseeker felt like typing on some kind of cheap plastic packaging
02:44.09 starseeker tremendous waste of raw materials
02:44.16 ``Erik think they were dell, not gateway
02:44.44 ``Erik dell has really picked their act up the last few years, the kbd's when I got to arl were shite, these most recent are almost usable
02:44.47 starseeker probably both - I'm sure keyboard cost cutting must have been a big thing around then...
02:45.01 starseeker yeah, it's getting a little more tolerable now
02:45.26 ``Erik I'm sure I have a 5 year old one sitting around somewhere if'n ya wanna be mortified
02:45.35 starseeker blegh
02:45.45 ``Erik I hate to say it, but it's not too different from the o2 keyboard. :(
02:45.48 starseeker just paid over $100 for two good ones :-P
02:46.10 starseeker O2 was stylish but got run over pretty quickly by Moore
02:46.15 ``Erik the machine case for sgi was effin' brilliant, the monitors were decent, but the kbd and mice seemed... retro. in a bad way.
02:47.02 starseeker thinks the best case design he has ever seen was the grey Mac G4 tower cases - soooo easy to get at everything
02:47.03 ``Erik recalls the indy having pretty crummy input devices, too... but with SPECKLED plastic and an sgi logo, so worth the couple hundred bucks premium...
02:47.15 ``Erik so you haven't seen the o2's guts
02:47.22 ``Erik or mebbe a prioris
02:47.34 ``Erik or a sun u2
02:47.58 starseeker why, easier to work then the Mac case? That's pretty impressive
02:48.16 ``Erik g4 tower was the clear roundish one with the handles, right?
02:48.36 ``Erik the g5 pro and intel mac pro are okish
02:48.52 starseeker right - side panel folded down and everything was right there - no messing with getting covers off, no working inside cases...
02:49.06 starseeker simple and effective
02:49.09 ``Erik yeah, that's normal for *nix machines...
02:49.27 ``Erik the old sun pizza boxes literally opened up like a pizza box, with bits on the top and bottom, all right there
02:49.39 starseeker how come the PCs never catch on?
02:49.43 ``Erik u2, jut slide the top back, it popped off and everything was right there
02:49.55 ``Erik cuz there's a pc repair shop industry to support? :D
02:50.16 ``Erik the o2 has most things removable without opening the case, there're levers on the back that slide the cards out
02:50.16 starseeker heh - thought they had that convered with the custom, non-standard power supply connectors
02:50.41 ``Erik the powersupply has no wires hanging out, it just pops out as a single block
02:51.24 starseeker was pondering getting a low end Dell or HP, but then remembered the habit big producers have of doing one-off hardware (like that infamous Dell power connector with messed up pins that would still plug into standard boards)
02:51.29 ``Erik the prioris was an x86, so it was a bit messy, but two thumb screws and it opens up, you could remove the memory, cpus, etc without any significant effort, even if you have fat fingers/hands :D
02:51.31 starseeker and fry things...
02:52.46 starseeker ended up with a low end gaming machine - it's at least expected that the user will upgrade things in such a box
02:53.12 starseeker heh - thumb screws - nowadays that comes under the heading "sales"
02:54.11 ``Erik http://www.anfa.org/image.php?img=563 looks like it has two dec prioris' on the left, one on the other
02:54.16 ``Erik good coffee tables
02:55.19 starseeker heh - still need to get a cray off of ebay and convert it into a fishtank or something :-)
02:55.30 ``Erik oh, the amusing thing, the machine was built to run nt... was impossible to get nt running on it, but linux just kicked right up (and showed TWO penguins on the boot screen)
02:55.38 starseeker lol
02:55.47 ``Erik stealing my crayquarium idea? O.o
02:56.15 ``Erik wow, christopher in walken "balls of fury"... just... wow...
02:56.30 starseeker ?
02:56.42 ``Erik comedy show about pingpong
02:56.48 starseeker ah
02:56.57 ``Erik movie
02:57.00 starseeker thought the kittens had gone beserk again
02:57.12 starseeker "balls of fury"
02:58.30 ``Erik yes. christopher walken is in my cats. he possesses them and makes them talk about needing more cowbell. :D
02:58.37 ``Erik :D
03:00.06 starseeker that's a scary thought
04:27.43 yukonbob saw Balls of Fury in the theatre ;)
04:28.57 ``Erik so sorry
04:29.36 yukonbob heheh it's -funny-
04:29.52 yukonbob "Ping pong, or, as the Chinese say, 'Ping Pong'"
04:30.31 ``Erik walken and maggie q were good, got a bit of a kick out of terry crews... jim hong got stale fast, and whoever that, uh, 'dan fogler' is, wtf?
04:30.33 yukonbob went for Christopher Walken.
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05:50.55 QAChip1 hallo all
05:51.19 QAChip1 any one reading?
05:51.45 cjdevlin sure
05:52.54 cjdevlin what's up?
05:53.04 QAChip1 I read about an issue when compiling BRL, I downloaded source code, but before compiling and installing, I want to ask if you know something about
05:54.24 cjdevlin i am brand new to it myself, so if you had the same issue i did, i can help
05:55.35 QAChip1 what issue you had?
05:56.46 cjdevlin make was failing b/c of a "missing" include.
05:57.56 QAChip1 I think that was the issue i read about
05:58.07 QAChip1 and how did you fix that?
06:00.58 cjdevlin src/other/openNURBS/opennurbs_system.h
06:01.48 cjdevlin @ line 246: #include<cstddef.h>
06:02.52 QAChip1 which version of BRL did you download? I downloaded 7.16.4, is it the same?
06:03.17 cjdevlin for the sake of asking, what version are you working with? and did you download the source or the binary?
06:03.28 cjdevlin and what os and gcc version?
06:03.48 QAChip1 haha, we are in the same channel,
06:04.18 QAChip1 I'm on Fedora 11, kernel 2.6.30....,
06:04.43 cjdevlin to get gcc version, at the command line: gcc -v
06:04.56 QAChip1 gcc versión 4.4.1 20090725 (Red Hat 4.4.1-2) (GCC)
06:05.18 cjdevlin ok. did that resolve your issue?
06:05.26 QAChip1 not tried
06:05.34 QAChip1 I was reading README
06:05.39 cjdevlin ah
06:07.18 QAChip1 line 246 is empty
06:07.28 cjdevlin correct
06:07.38 cjdevlin should be just above #include<new> i think
06:08.03 QAChip1 yes, @247 #include <new> // for declaration of placement versions of new used in onClassArray<>.
06:08.39 QAChip1 then? sustitute <new> with <cstddef.h>?
06:08.45 cjdevlin #include<cstddef.h> should go above it
06:08.50 cjdevlin do not replace, just add
06:08.54 QAChip1 ok
06:09.26 QAChip1 done
06:09.43 QAChip1 then ./ configure, make make install?
06:10.28 CoconutCrab so they still haven't fixed this yet
06:10.30 cjdevlin ./configure, make test, make, sudo make install (for system-wide installation)
06:10.50 cjdevlin the devs here said that it is a gcc bug, not brl cad
06:10.56 cjdevlin i don't know enough to argue either way
06:11.23 CoconutCrab I mean GCC
06:11.28 CoconutCrab in 4.4.1
06:11.49 cjdevlin not sure. QA stated he wanted to modify before he attempted
06:14.00 QAChip1 I said i read about this issue, and you said you had this issue, then I assumed it was the same, added line 246 and now trying to install, if it reports any problem, will be back here
06:14.25 cjdevlin works for me. adding it explicitly there shouldn't hurt
06:16.25 QAChip1 ./configure now
06:19.23 QAChip1 I think I lack some dev files
06:19.47 cjdevlin what is the output/error
06:21.37 QAChip1 at the end> configure: error: *** compiler cannot create working executables, check config.log ***
06:21.47 QAChip1 im reading, configure.log
06:22.13 CoconutCrab are you using linux? if so, which distro?
06:23.15 cjdevlin coconutcrab: he said fedora 11
06:23.23 QAChip1 linux Fedora 11
06:24.01 QAChip1 kernel 2.6.30.10-105.2.16
06:24.08 CoconutCrab ok, I am not familiar with redhat family
06:24.56 QAChip1 ok, thx anyway, i'll keep on reading
06:25.21 cjdevlin what did the log say?
06:26.04 CoconutCrab I believe you will need to install some packages, not sure which though, on ubuntu it is build-essential or something like that
06:26.34 CoconutCrab QAChip1: do you have gcc installed?
06:27.02 QAChip1 yes, of course
06:27.26 QAChip1 but with out DEV files
06:27.32 cjdevlin http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=156569
06:27.38 cjdevlin that is what you are looking for
06:27.53 cjdevlin the yum groupinstall is fedora syntax
06:29.08 QAChip1 never tried that, lets give it a chance
06:31.58 cjdevlin did you install gcc from source or via yum?
06:32.28 QAChip1 via yum
06:33.02 QAChip1 specifically, via software repositories
06:33.07 cjdevlin ok. when it goes to install the rest, it will tell you that gcc is up to date
06:33.19 cjdevlin so the yum groupinstall should still work
06:33.36 QAChip1 yes, I saw I have many required packages, but lacked of many others
06:34.15 QAChip1 hahah, install 42 packages [y/n]
06:34.34 QAChip1 I lacked 42 packages
06:35.26 cjdevlin yeah . . . many of them probably aren't going to be required for brl, but should be available for anyone who compiles from source
06:36.45 cjdevlin particularly if you are running a newer box with the space for them
06:37.15 QAChip1 No new box, but I have space
06:37.44 cjdevlin build yourself a sandbox out of an older machine?
06:37.47 QAChip1 in fact, I am not used to compile form src, but this time it is mandatory since no yum or rpm
06:38.52 QAChip1 cjdevlin: I did not get that
06:39.09 QAChip1 I mean, I did not understand that question
06:39.37 cjdevlin sandbox == not a production/primary machine, a machine just to run random progs on that you don't have to worry about crashing
06:40.03 QAChip1 mmm, no, this is my production machine
06:40.09 cjdevlin ahh
06:40.37 QAChip1 so far, it works like a charm, no stability issues
06:43.31 cjdevlin the last time i used a 'fedora' install it was still regular old red hat and it was v9. i liked it back in the day, but found that the support around ubuntu is a bit faster. i've been using debian/ubuntu for a while now. also very stable.
06:44.37 QAChip1 configure: failed program was:
06:44.37 QAChip1 | /* confdefs.h. */
06:44.48 QAChip1 this is an issue raised in config.log
06:48.40 cjdevlin install kernel-headers and glibc-devel packages with the Red Hat Package Manager, RPM.
06:49.33 cjdevlin from this article: http://www.geektimes.com/linux/troubleshooting/c-cant-create-executables.html
06:50.24 QAChip1 I'll have to wait, is is installing package 20/42
06:51.45 cjdevlin ahh, then glibc-devel is probably included in what you are installing.
06:51.48 QAChip1 read that! thx
06:52.23 QAChip1 anyway, will download devel packages from Red Hat's repos
06:52.42 QAChip1 for further compilations
06:53.12 cjdevlin hokay, i am going to take a coffee break. let us know how it goes . . . i'll still be around/up for a few hours if you need anything, but may not be near the irc
06:55.23 QAChip1 ok, see you later
06:55.31 QAChip1 ...hope so!
06:56.31 brlcad waves
06:58.11 brlcad good luck with the build!
06:58.17 brlcad away for a bit, but do read backlog
07:40.04 QAChip1 last output >- ./configure complete, type 'make' to begin building
07:40.07 QAChip1 checking log
07:42.36 QAChip1 BTW, I already have glibc-devel and kernel-headers
07:48.24 QAChip1 I got some messages like this: conftest.cc:28:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
07:48.26 QAChip1 configure:14012: $? = 1
07:48.26 QAChip1 configure: failed program was:
07:48.26 QAChip1 | /* confdefs.h. */
07:48.32 QAChip1 any hint?
08:02.29 QAChip1 cjdevlin: are you there?
08:52.33 QAChip1 Issues on make benchmark, make test and thereby #make install
08:55.58 QAChip1 will go to sleep, tomorow will add more time to install this, see you all tomorrow, and GO SAINTS!
08:57.40 QAChip1 leaves the room with his eyes closed!
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16:16.47 ``Erik oh, this is that 'superbowl' day, huh
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23:00.51 starseeker is fried - whole day shoveling and not dug out yet
23:03.02 ``Erik heh
23:03.04 ``Erik yeh
23:03.10 ``Erik I have some more shovelling to do tomorrow
23:03.33 ``Erik one of the neighbors went and used his snowblower on the entire cul de sac, since the plow that drove through made more of a mess than anything
23:04.08 ``Erik perl causes me yet more strusfration. *sigh*
23:15.43 starseeker doesn't know that he'll be in tomorrow - no plow in sight here
23:16.29 starseeker haven't dug to the street - waiting for the big mound of snow at the end of the driveway from plow ;-)
23:26.28 ``Erik yeh, I have a few things to take care of to get on the road, which is still all white
23:26.41 ``Erik tree fell down in the wind and snow :/
23:38.59 ``Erik huh, there's a pickup with a flashing yellow light ontop and several people infront of it talking O.o I wonder if it's a dude telling people they need to move their trucks so the plow can come through
23:41.11 ``Erik well, the yellow light truck is gone and the pickups are moving, must've been it

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