Got minime to compile on Linux again. A while ago, I did some ugly things with signals in a solaris/sysv-specific way that disallowed compilation on Linux for a while. Finally got around to fixing it today; this marks the first journal entry in quite a while that has been submitted from a Linux box instead of ssh-ing to ND to use the Solaris journal client (which is ironic, actually, since the journal server is sitting right here next to me --
ssh-ing up to ND made the data go much farther to get to its ultimate destination). Whooo hoooo!!
At Brian's advice, I went and got Mozilla M17 (source). It's still compiling.
I love inilib. It does such nice things for me. :-)
Motivation for saying that: Perk and I have been having a conversation about using the "HTML Tidy" program to clean up journal entries before they are submitted vs. using an internal parser (that I have already written). Turns out that "HTML Tidy" is 95% better --
it's much smarter about closing tags, but it does a few icky things. Best way to resolve it? Have a user-definable option! Let them choose between the internal parser and HTML Tidy. And inilib just takes care of storing that for me. Make today an Inilib day.
Favorite phrase of today: "beaten on the head by a Mozilla stick."
Faller asked for a copy of the LSC Coding Standards today. Must be spreading that to the good folks at Analog Devices. LSC: The World Domination Tour.
Did some LAM work today; added auto-generation of man pages from structured comments in source code. It's something a) I foolishly promised on the LAM list, and b) oh yeah, users indicated that they wanted on the LAM user survey. Kinda neat, actually. Had to re-create man pages for MPI_Comm_spawn and MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple --
I had made all the MPI-1 man page comments back on Dec 31/Jan 1 while I was waiting for the world to implode. Had to do some icky things to fool automake into a) putting them in the distribution, and b) installing them when "make install" is invoked. Yuk.
Speaking of LAM, finally resolved Mr. Pascal's issues with LAM/MPI. Turns out that you have to use a special option to the Free Pascal compiler to tell it to link to libc; if you manually link with "-lc", it won't work (for lack of a longer explanation). I asked about such a thing a month or two ago in the initial set of e-mails with Mr. Pascal, but he didn't know about it then. Yesterday, we initiated contact with the Free Pascal developers, and they immediately mentioned this special switch. Oh well, live and learn (but try to avoid Cobol whenever possible).
We're still getting bounced messages from the LAM list from <ptavares@dsg.dei.uc.pt>. Dog claims they're nowhere to be found on mpi.nd.edu's sendmail queue, but the bounces keep coming back. We'll probably get them for another 2-3 days, <sigh> I'll be very happy when we can switch to GNU Mailman (gotta wait for IU vs. ND decision first).
Continued to rip my CDs. It's going nice and slow, but now I have plenty of disk space.
Back to minime hacking...