Re: [LUG] What's everyone doing ?

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 12:24 am, John Daragon wrote:
> This is a question I nicked from uk.business.agriculture (where the answers
> are sort of seasonal ...) but which sometimes spins off tangentially.
>
> I'm sitting in the office (I have no life) documenting some bugs in a
> client's software suite and trying (unsuccessfully) to download a 122MB
> Nokia Series 60 SDK over an Freeserve ISDN connection.
>
> And looking at Kdevelop. Which seems to have a sense of humour when it
> comes to make.

? make is the one thing that I rely on KDevelop doing - the only time I tried 
to write my own make file, the program never compiled on any other system, 
even one using the same distro and version. I use KDevelop for C++ yes. The 
skeletons appear really useful (but there again, I'm no expert, I am 
self-taught and probably have innumerable horrible/dangerous habits).

> Anyone else out there develop software on Linux ? What do *you* use as a
> development environment ?

I have used g++ from the command line when designing cross-platform standard 
library engine functions, it is really fast for simple data manipulation / 
number/string crunching with output to console etc. That engine worked first 
time on KDE and Windows. (Borland C++).

> I guess I've been spoiled by the usability of
> MSVC, but I'm finding the move to Linux for development beyond cc a bit of
> a struggle.
>
> jd

I never liked the MS compilers for Windows code, I started with Borland and 
quickly moved to the horrors of PASCAL to generate code that could be 
compiled without needing >2MB of unnecessary DLL's or adding some 170kb to a 
static linked program. 

What I'm still confused about is adapting to KDE/Qt and RPM dependencies. I 
have made a binary and source RPM on Mandrake of an XML data access program 
but the binary won't install on RH. When I install the source RPM, recreate a 
binary RPM on RH, it'll install fine on both machines. So it's obvious (?no?) 
that the dependency attached to the Mandrake generated make file/RPM/spec is 
false? (the 'missing' library is liblcms.so.1)

- -- 

Neil Williams
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http://www.codehelp.co.uk/
http://www.dclug.org.uk/

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