foot-shot?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	Hm.  Last night mutt began to fail to sent mail; it exited with a
> 	127.  When I tried to rebuilt mutt, turns out that I'm missing
> 	GNU m4... .  I'll paste the build snafus after my sig here on my 
> 	server.  Ideas how things got hosed?  anybody?
> 
	[[ ... ]]

>  
> 
> ===>  Configuring for mutt-1.4.2.3_3
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/soup.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of
> AM_PATH_SOUP

	foo, bar, baz ...
> 
>

	Well, gents [*],

	Somehow my installed world got partially deleted and to save myself
	further grief, I rebuilt everything.  *Then* rebuilt mutt.  portmaster 
	gets stuck on the java stuff because we still hasta fetch it ourselves.
	I thought Sun was going to fix that.  In any case, my diablo-jdk16
	timezone file is MIA, so I'm wedged  as far as further upgrading goes.

	
	Been thinking over what someone said recently about restricting or
	dropping further ports.  BSD is the best opensource system around.  But
	keeping everything current is painful.  Does anybody know if PCBSD is as
	pushbutton as, say, Ubuntu is?  I'll always use FreeBSD on my DNS,
	apache22, and mail server side.  Zero crashes in 7 years.  But if I want
	to play music or watch a DVD--or do serious web video stuff--I use Ubuntu.
	I'd like to say kilowatts by having one "tao" that can handle everything
	from hacking code to playing a movie.

	There is the talent here to fix the fixable ...  at the same time, we've
	all got real lives, jobs, school, families, etc.  And a limited volunteer
	base.   ...That's my dime's worth.

	gary





	[*] to spare raging replies, no, i am not a sexist/chauvinist.  Only
	    30 years ago about a third of my computer class was female.  Not to
	    mention some drop-dead blondes in my ckt theory class... .
	    I mean, some serious female EE talent there! :-)  ...  Now?? dunno.

	    [?]
	    :-(

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