| 13:09:00 | prpplague | morning |
| 13:09:06 | erikm | hello prpplague |
| 13:09:24 | prpplague | erikm: hows the head blob-ster today? |
| 13:10:54 | erikm | prpplague: pretty well. nice weather over here |
| 13:22:23 | prpplague | erikm: cool |
| 13:23:27 | prpplague | erikm: its pretty nice out here too, though i won't get to do anything outside |
| 13:24:08 | prpplague | is converting a 20 year old c app to use "make" |
| 13:27:04 | prpplague | migrating all this SCO stuff to linux is going to be great when its done, but its a real nightmare right now |
| 13:27:59 | erikm | heh |
| 13:28:48 | erikm | you might want to use autoscan. it generates a configure.scan script. you don't have to make the package autoconf'ed, but it gives nice hints what you should look for in case of compatibility problems |
| 13:30:05 | prpplague | thanks, i'll have a look, this is my first complete system migration |
| 13:30:36 | prpplague | the group that did this apparently had no knowledge of the word "posix" |
| 14:08:50 | erikm | heh |
| 14:09:24 | erikm | btw, if you want to do it right once and for all, you should try to use autoconf. when done right, it makes really portable code. |
| 14:10:56 | erikm | I once wrote a piece of software with autoconf+automake on a linux platform. it used some system specific stuff like the time functions (which can be fairly messy). I had no problems compiling the same code on sunos 4, irix 5, irix 6, hp/ux 9.x, hp/ux 10.x, ultrix, and convex/ps |
| 14:12:35 | erikm | goes to friends for chat and dinner |
| 19:54:53 | prpplague | howdy BZFlag |
| 19:55:11 | prpplague | BZFlag: any chance that you received my $$? |