Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/06/10/01:54:27
> From: zargon AT hotmail DOT vom (Zargon)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:41:55 GMT
>
> Downloading it from a slow FTP server... I could live with that.
> Faffing around learning how to install it and use it
Installing it boils down to unzipping the distribution. Complicated?
Hardly. As for using it, you don't need to learn that at all, since
the Makefile already has the command which invokes Sed, and will do so
automatically for you.
(Do users of free software *really* need so much convincing nowadays
just to download a 107K binary distribution and see if it solves a
problem for them? I wonder...)
> just to fix this one problem, seems silly to me, especially when the
> problem is a) not my fault and b) won't be fixed by "make veryclean"
> anyways
No offense, but that's wrong attitude with free software. Sometimes,
the best, most-thoroughly tested package would not build on someone's
machine because of some rare (or not-so-rare) coincidence. When that
happens, the person who is the most motivated to get the package to
work on that machine--you--should do the minimum of experimenting with
the solutions suggested by his/her own inventiveness and other helpful
people here. If you take this path, it will eventually lead to a
solution.
But if you will continue to _reason_ why the solutions suggested to
you will not work (without even trying them), you will probably never
solve this. Software is not a theoretical discipline.
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