asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the recipe consists of attempting to build it on either of my boxes after patched to fix the integer thing
asciilifeform: it is nothing new to the veteran turd-shoveler.
asciilifeform: but regardless, i have at least two dozen proggies on this here box that -have- to be built with gcc x.y.z or else
asciilifeform: it is also possible that i am somehow mistaken about all of this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the issues cut deeper than gcc. we are dealing with what ilkka kokkarinen called 'unprincipled exception', where something is allowed to stay broken because fixing it would break 10,000 other things.
asciilifeform: one without which a decent compiler is quite impossible.
asciilifeform: for all we know, 'toe jam' is a micronutrient
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rms is long in the tooth, old, and endlessly hammered by clean-shaven fools who don't eat 'toe jam' and spit in his face
asciilifeform recommeds that mircea_popescu start collecting slavegirls who are handy with systems programming. though the trouble may be that ones of the correct vintage (no later than early '80s) are probably beginning to spoil...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... be my slavegirls << in that case,
asciilifeform: cheaper if you can pay the original to do it
asciilifeform: who could convincingly (let's dream) pretend to be a 'prodigal son'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: only worth, hypothetically, in the hands of a skilled operative
asciilifeform: incidentally, i keep waiting for 'deceased' folks like pankkake or moiety to 'return from the grave' (after ninjasp4mz0r buys their keys for xxx btc)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: how you know? did he sign ?
asciilifeform: asks quite a few questions for a random fella.
asciilifeform: who the hell was ebriusinanis anyway?
asciilifeform: (though i do like 'portage' more than hand-waltzing every proggy. if only marginally.)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thing is, if you understand how to use 'buildroot' you no longer need distros
asciilifeform: did you ever even use all the possible flags for 'less' anyway.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it makes for a largely usable box. boot up 'turdel', try it.
asciilifeform: essentially cut-down versions of all the customary userland utils but rolled into one binary, which then gets called from tiny scripts each of which pretends to be, e.g., 'top' or 'ls'
asciilifeform: <BingoBoingo> ... Busybox is boring. << it wasn't built to be interesting, but to take up the least space possible while still doing, approximately, the job.
asciilifeform: like watching a garden grow, if you could do so in real time
asciilifeform: <hanbot> ... it's very pleasant to watch it chew without complaining << half the addiction potential of gentoo right there
