Hey Henny!

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gcc (GCC) 10.2.0
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Life is good,
Maurice

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Hello Maurice!

23 Jul 2020 23:42, Maurice Kinal wrote to Henny Youngman:

gcc (GCC) 10.2.0
Life is good,

yes it is :)


Regards Benny

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Hallo Benny!

gcc (GCC) 10.2.0
Life is good,

yes it is :)

Also glibc-2.32 should be out in the next week or two. :-)

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Hello Maurice!

24 Jul 2020 17:54, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

gcc (GCC) 10.2.0
Life is good,

yes it is :)

Also glibc-2.32 should be out in the next week or two. :-)

in that case gentoo needs you as a developper :)

only 2.31 is still masked, while 2.30 is latest stable

back to my Dali IO-6 playing music from my Huawei P40 Pro

no google no problem


Regards Benny

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Hey Benny!

only 2.31 is still masked, while 2.30 is latest stable

That is the same with slackware-current. I am not sure why that is. As for me;

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GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.31.
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 10.2.0.
libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC ABSOLUTE
For bug reporting instructions, please see: <https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
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Before today the above output would have read "Compiled by GNU CC version 10.1.0." Also I have at least one useable/bootable/chrootable gcc-9.3.0 based partition at my disposal. It also uses glibc-2.31.

no google no problem

+1

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Henny Youngman <=-

Hey Henny!

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Hi Maurice! (And everyone else)

andy@oceanus:~$ rustc --version
rustc 1.45.1 (c367798cf 2020-07-26) andy@oceanus:~$ ldd `which rustc`
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc5dd7b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcad2330000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcad2326000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcad23
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fcad22eb00
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcad212a000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcad1fa7000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcad2f10000)

So I've been working with Rust the last few weeks. I started learning it about a
year ago but got frustrated and quit for a while. Though I normally can only program for a month or two before I need a break from physical pain associated with using the computer.

But anyway, this time when I got stuck, I used some of their support methods available.

So far I've been finding Rust pretty interesting and cool. I released the first

version of configster, a library for parsing config file: https://crates.io/crates/configster

I did that library because I needed a way to parse config files, as I'm also working on oxi-rmw, a Rust port of rmw (a C program I started 10 years ago).

I find that building is noticeably slower on Rust, but on the up-side, I spend less time on certain bits of code and debugging.

I won't do any more of a review than that I guess, as there's plenty of docs online. ;)

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Hey Andrew!

andy@oceanus:~$ rustc --version

I am wondering if it can be used for as a crosscompiler for any of the below targets;

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aarch64-fuchsia
aarch64-linux-android
aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
aarch64-unknown-cloudabi
aarch64-unknown-freebsd
aarch64-unknown-hermit
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
aarch64-unknown-netbsd
aarch64-unknown-none
aarch64-unknown-none-softfloat
aarch64-unknown-openbsd
aarch64-unknown-redox
aarch64-uwp-windows-msvc
aarch64-wrs-vxworks
arm-linux-androideabi
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
arm-unknown-linux-musleabi
arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf
armebv7r-none-eabi
armebv7r-none-eabihf
armv4t-unknown-linux-gnueabi
armv5te-unknown-linux-gnueabi
armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi
armv6-unknown-freebsd
armv6-unknown-netbsd-eabihf
armv7-linux-androideabi
armv7-unknown-cloudabi-eabihf
armv7-unknown-freebsd
armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabi
armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
armv7-unknown-linux-musleabi
armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf
armv7-unknown-netbsd-eabihf
armv7-wrs-vxworks-eabihf
armv7a-none-eabi
armv7a-none-eabihf
armv7r-none-eabi
armv7r-none-eabihf
asmjs-unknown-emscripten
hexagon-unknown-linux-musl
i586-pc-windows-msvc
i586-unknown-linux-gnu
i586-unknown-linux-musl
i686-apple-darwin
i686-linux-android
i686-pc-windows-gnu
i686-pc-windows-msvc
i686-unknown-cloudabi
i686-unknown-freebsd
i686-unknown-haiku
i686-unknown-linux-gnu
i686-unknown-linux-musl
i686-unknown-netbsd
i686-unknown-openbsd
i686-unknown-uefi
i686-uwp-windows-gnu
i686-uwp-windows-msvc
i686-wrs-vxworks
mips-unknown-linux-gnu
mips-unknown-linux-musl
mips-unknown-linux-uclibc
mips64-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
mips64-unknown-linux-muslabi64
mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
mips64el-unknown-linux-muslabi64
mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu
mipsel-unknown-linux-musl
mipsel-unknown-linux-uclibc
mipsisa32r6-unknown-linux-gnu
mipsisa32r6el-unknown-linux-gnu
mipsisa64r6-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
mipsisa64r6el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
msp430-none-elf
nvptx64-nvidia-cuda
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnuspe
powerpc-unknown-linux-musl
powerpc-unknown-netbsd
powerpc-wrs-vxworks
powerpc-wrs-vxworks-spe
powerpc64-unknown-freebsd
powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
powerpc64-unknown-linux-musl
powerpc64-wrs-vxworks
powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl
riscv32i-unknown-none-elf
riscv32imac-unknown-none-elf
riscv32imc-unknown-none-elf
riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu
riscv64gc-unknown-none-elf
riscv64imac-unknown-none-elf
s390x-unknown-linux-gnu
sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu
sparc64-unknown-netbsd
sparc64-unknown-openbsd
sparcv9-sun-solaris
thumbv6m-none-eabi
thumbv7a-pc-windows-msvc
thumbv7em-none-eabi
thumbv7em-none-eabihf
thumbv7m-none-eabi
thumbv7neon-linux-androideabi
thumbv7neon-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
thumbv7neon-unknown-linux-musleabihf
thumbv8m.base-none-eabi
thumbv8m.main-none-eabi
thumbv8m.main-none-eabihf
wasm32-unknown-emscripten
wasm32-unknown-unknown
wasm32-wasi
x86_64-apple-darwin
x86_64-fortanix-unknown-sgx
x86_64-fuchsia
x86_64-linux-android
x86_64-linux-kernel
x86_64-pc-solaris
x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
x86_64-rumprun-netbsd
x86_64-sun-solaris
x86_64-unknown-cloudabi
x86_64-unknown-dragonfly
x86_64-unknown-freebsd
x86_64-unknown-haiku
x86_64-unknown-hermit
x86_64-unknown-hermit-kernel
x86_64-unknown-l4re-uclibc
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnux32
x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
x86_64-unknown-netbsd
x86_64-unknown-openbsd
x86_64-unknown-redox
x86_64-unknown-uefi
x86_64-uwp-windows-gnu
x86_64-uwp-windows-msvc
x86_64-wrs-vxworks
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I'd be most interested in x86_64-linux-android given the lameness of the actual target itself. aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu already works here all on it's own so it doesn't require a crosscompiler. Hmmmm ... I wonder what x86_64-linux-kernel is all about? I'll have to check that out soon as my curiousity just got piqued.

So far I've been finding Rust pretty interesting and cool.

So far the only thing I've used it for is to take care of Firefox dependencies. I might take it up if it can be used to take care of Android's shortcomings but even then I could see myself losing interest really quickly. Today find me still waiting for the glibc-2.32 release and for that I am sticking with the usual suspects (gcc, binutils, etc).

Good to talk to you again!

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

andy@oceanus:~$ rustc --version

I am wondering if it can be used for as a crosscompiler for any of the below targets;

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aarch64-fuchsia
aarch64-linux-android

Hey, Maurice!

I don't really have any experience, or knowledge, about cross-compiling yet, with
any language. But I did a little research for you.

'rustup target add x86_64-linux-android` will install a toolchain for cross-compiling, if I understand things correctly.

There are some examples for a "Hello, World" program at this web page I found. https://dev.to/h_ajsf/building-wasm-android-and-ios-app-with-singlecommon-rust-
core-code-3ja4

Good to talk to you again!

You too. ;) Have a nice evening.


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Hey Andrew!

'rustup target add x86_64-linux-android` will install a
toolchain for cross-compiling, if I understand things correctly.

I'll have to give it a try sometime. At the moment I am waiting for the new glibc-2.32 to be released which should be any day now.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

I'll have to give it a try sometime. At the moment I am waiting for
the new glibc-2.32 to be released which should be any day now.

Ok, have fun with it, Maurice. :) Are there any particular changes, new features,
or bug fixes expected for 2.32 that you're looking forward to?

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Hey Andrew!

Are there any particular changes, new features, or bug fixes
expected for 2.32 that you're looking forward to?

Not really. My motivation is that for the last 20 years or so I've had an up-to-date bootable, customized, linux-gnu partition going and if I am stubborn enough I could have one going for the next 20 years. That is and has been my primary evil, demented plan and I see no good reason to stop now.

Do you?

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Not really. My motivation is that for the last 20 years or so I've had
an up-to-date bootable, customized, linux-gnu partition going and if I
am stubborn enough I could have one going for the next 20 years. That
is and has been my primary evil, demented plan and I see no good reason
to stop now.

Do you?

No, it sounds fun to me actually ;)

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Hey Andrew!

No, it sounds fun to me actually ;)

Surprisingly enough it has so far gone really smooth (almost finished xorg), but I am willing to bet that firefox will be a bust for now. It ALWAYS gives me trouble after upgrading gcc. The last successful firefox build was with a gcc-9.3.0/glibc-2.31 based system.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Surprisingly enough it has so far gone really smooth (almost finished xorg), but I am willing to bet that firefox will be a bust for now. It ALWAYS gives me trouble after upgrading gcc. The last successful
firefox build was with a gcc-9.3.0/glibc-2.31 based system.

And how was it this time, Maurice?

Me and a friend have a started working on a network multiplayer poker game, coded
in Rust. (It won't be done for a while yet). Terminal-based, probably will just

include 5-card draw and a couple stud variations.

Poker is somewhat a tradition in our family... I first learned when I was about 9.
We do it as a family when we get together sometimes during holidays and special

occasions. We play with the kids (my nephews), never for money.

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Hey Andrew!

And how was it this time, Maurice?

Unfortunetly as predicted. Everything else went remarkably smooth, including a rustc update to 1.45.2 which is the latest.

Terminal-based

Excellent. I am not much of a gamer but it sounds like it is worth a looksee given the "Terminal-based". :-)

We play with the kids (my nephews), never for money.

Understood. Not much money to win - or lose as the case may be - around here.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Terminal-based

Excellent. I am not much of a gamer but it sounds like it is worth a looksee given the "Terminal-based". :-)

Oh, I appreciate that! It's the "telluricdeckay" project on this GitHub org page:
https://github.com/TelluricDeckay

The other two projects listed there are libraries we wrote for the program.

The hand-eval library isn't complete yet; it needs a function to compare between 2
or more poker hands to see which is higher, in the event of a tie (e.g. if > 1 player has a pair, two-pair, etc).

Right now, it only has a function to figure out if a hand of five cards contains a
pair, two-pair, three-of-a-kind, etc.

No Contributing doc yet, but that should come soon after we add more to the code-base and make start making tickets. Maybe I'll make a ticket for the compare
function.. I think I might need a short break from alogorithms! Also.. I haven't
figured out how to do it yet! ;)

Anyway.. the app isn't finished yet, Maurice, but I can definitely give you a ping
when there's a playable prototype. :)

I may try a Rust library and give the app sound effects. But if that means too much bloat for your tastes, I'll avoid that! :)

I'm not much of a gamer either, but probably more than you from the sounds of it.
These days, I play 0 A.D. a few hours a week against the AI with a friend of mine.
Though I've been coding so much lately, haven't played in over a week.

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Hey Andrew!

https://github.com/TelluricDeckay

Bookmarked it and will definetly clone it later this week. I am giving myself at least a couple days off while the dust settles on these latest upgrades. I think I deserve it.

The other two projects listed there are libraries we wrote for
the program.

I'll have a looksee at them all.

I may try a Rust library and give the app sound effects. But if
that means too much bloat for your tastes, I'll avoid that! :)

Knock yourself out. I have sound on two of the machines - this one and x86_64-heatsink-linux-gnu - both of which have the alsa mixer available to the 'linux' terminal as well as fbdev2 if you REALLY want to get fancy with the output. I cannot get the unicode playing cards enabled on the 'linux' terminal to display (yet) but they could work in a xterm which I do have on x86_64-motorshed-linux-gnu. ;-) Check out http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F0A0.pdf if you wish to see what they look like.

These days, I play 0 A.D. a few hours a week against the AI with
a friend of mine.

I have cpat handy on all three machines, which is a ncurses based solitaire game. The default in cpat-1.4.1 is to use unicode but I just use 'cpat -a' for colourized ascii output. I haven't tried it in xorg yet so I am unsure what I'd have to do to get the unicode output. I'll try that later if you're curious.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Hallo Maurice!

I have sound on two of the machines - this one and x86_64-heatsink-linux-gnu

All three since x86_64-lmbrain-linux-gnu's lscpi reports "Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)". Beats me if it actually works since we never put any sound apps on there to try it out.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Hello Maurice!

17 Aug 2020 21:52, Maurice Kinal wrote to Maurice Kinal:

Beats me if it actually works since we never
put any sound apps on there to try it out.

silence is golden :)


Regards Benny

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Hallo Benny!

silence is golden :)

+1

Het leven is goed,
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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

https://github.com/TelluricDeckay

Bookmarked it and will definetly clone it later this week. I am giving myself at least a couple days off while the dust settles on these
latest upgrades. I think I deserve it.

Well, we've decided to go full GUI and use 'iced' as the library. Though I'm stuck
figuring out how to code the flow with the GUI, and have cataract surgery scheduled on Oct 2, so I may just quit for now, clear my head and make sure I'm

caught up on sleep and pain management before the surgery.

The good news is, rmw will always be non-GUI! I'd be interested in your opinion of
that if it strikes your interest. I've been working on it for almost ten years now
https://remove-to-waste.info/

rmw (ReMove to Waste) is a safe-remove utility for the command line. Its goal is
to conform to the FreeDesktop.org Trash specification and therefore be compatible
with KDE, GNOME, XFCE, and others. Desktop integration is optional however, and by
default, rmw will only use a waste folder separated from your desktop trash. One
of its unique features is the ability to purge files from your Waste/Trash directories after x number of days.

Also I took over as maintainer of the abandoned modemu project, which I use to connect to Prism BBS with minicom.
https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/modemu2k


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Hey Andrew!

Though I'm stuck figuring out how to code the flow with the GUI,
and have cataract surgery scheduled on Oct 2,

Ouch. I don't envy you any, especially the surgery part. As for programming, I swore off of GUI progamming after writing a printer driver for Win-3.1 way back in the day. I've lived up to that oath ever since which makes it about 30-ish years.

so I may just quit for now, clear my head and make sure I'm
caught up on sleep and pain management before the surgery.

Sounds like a plan. Everything will keep in the meantime I am sure.

https://remove-to-waste.info/

Consider it bookmarked. :-)

Also I took over as maintainer of the abandoned modemu project

That sounds familiar. If I am not mistaken I first heard about it back in 1995-ish perhaps a year or two later. I last had a working modem (external) around then so something like that would have gotten my attention.

https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/modemu2k

Also bookmarked. I'll check it out later as you've got my curiousity aroused. I am not sure at this stage of the game I'd be keen to use a modem emulator on minicom. The last time I played with minicom was to output raw GPS sentences from a usb GPS reciever about 15-ish years ago. I still have the reciever but last time I played with it was with gpsd.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

Though I'm stuck figuring out how to code the flow with the GUI,
and have cataract surgery scheduled on Oct 2,

Ouch. I don't envy you any, especially the surgery part. As for programming, I swore off of GUI progamming after writing a printer
driver for Win-3.1 way back in the day. I've lived up to that oath
ever since which makes it about 30-ish years.

My first attempt at GUI programming. I think for me the one big advantage to being
able to write an app with a GUI is that maybe my nephews and nieces will be more
interested in software I develop! :)

https://remove-to-waste.info/

Consider it bookmarked. :-)

Thanks. :)

Also I took over as maintainer of the abandoned modemu project

That sounds familiar. If I am not mistaken I first heard about it back
in 1995-ish perhaps a year or two later. I last had a working modem (external) around then so something like that would have gotten my attention.

That must be the same one. The copyright info in the source indicates 1996. I can't say I understand the code much, but I was able to make it ipv6 capable, fixed some warnings, and made sure it would compile with gcc 10 (made sure it compiles with the -fno-common flag), and added a configure script (with autoconf).

I actually got some very nice feedback from the sysop of the Rusty Mailbox last

year. He said he noticed it come through filegate and tried it out. He was a regular use of modemu but it stopped working for him. It worked for him after my
updates :)

https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/modemu2k

Also bookmarked. I'll check it out later as you've got my curiousity aroused. I am not sure at this stage of the game I'd be keen to use a modem emulator on minicom. The last time I played with minicom was to output raw GPS sentences from a usb GPS reciever about 15-ish years
ago. I still have the reciever but last time I played with it was with gpsd.

Sure, I wasn't really recommending you switch from whatever you use now, just me
shamelessly advertising a little. More fun to maintain software when people know
about it.

Though I think rmw you'd definitely have a use for! Great for anyone who works at
the command line when they are tired. ;)

Are you working on any interesting projects these days, Maurice?

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Hey Andrew!

I think for me the one big advantage to being able to write an
app with a GUI is that maybe my nephews and nieces will be more
interested in software I develop! :)

That might work. All I know is that everytime a young person comes over to my place it is to get their device(s) to connect to the wifi. Once that happens they lose interest in what I do although they are totally amazed that whatever I am typing at the keyboard seems to get amazing things to happen. They always ask me how I know what to type to make whatever they see going on - usually on the monitor - happen. It is then I show them a commandline to play a movie which totally floors them. I have a trailer with lego characters doing the "Knights of The Round Table" song and dance from Monty Python's "Search For The Huly Grail" on hand for such occasions.

The copyright info in the source indicates 1996.

That sounds about right. It has been awhile and I am at the age where senior's moments are noticeably on the increase. :-/

just me shamelessly advertising a little.

That works for me. Glad to be of service.

Are you working on any interesting projects these days, Maurice?

Not really at the moment. I was working on getting the two wifi access points up to speed but everyone concerned seems happiest when I leave well enough alone. I was hoping to get a mesh network going but there is a lack of individuals up to the task so I've put that on the back burner and I suspect it'll eventually get abandoned. Too bad since I see some fun to be had there.

Life is good,
Maurice

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