I said I'd never blog

Nothing too difficult or fundamentally useful, but I promised I would do it. So here it is...

By the way, on my T60 2007, I had to switch and inverse X/Y, but YMMV.

Funnily enough, the main Makefile of DeforaOS as generated by configure when bootstrapping is breaking NetBSD's make. Here is how:

• i386 4.0_STABLE:

  $ make
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  $ gdb make make.core
  [...]
  (gdb) bt
  #0  0xbbbb2f52 in memmove () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
  #1  0x08056c0f in ParseGetLine ()
  #2  0x08057659 in Parse_File ()
  #3  0x08053b3c in ReadMakefile ()
  #4  0x080545be in main ()
  

• amd64 4.99.54, sparc64 4.99.55:

  $ make
  make: "/home/khorben/Projects/DeforaOS/Makefile" line 1019: Makefile read error:
  Invalid argument
  make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
  
  make: stopped in /home/khorben/Projects/DeforaOS

The command line of the source archive generation (the dist target) is now splitted over a thousand lines, or just over 64 kilobytes. I guess that's the default buffer size...

Apart from that, I just aligned configure with the latest changes from the libSystem, which is due to release tomorrowtoday or so. Expect a new release for configure too, hopefully with better documentation than currently available.

I'll send a PR for the crash on 4.0 of course.

Update: bin/38840

Exactly four years after the last "official release", here comes a new archive of DaPortal. There are way too many changes to sum them up here. Suffice to say this time I managed not to fully re-implement it from scratch, and improve it directly instead.

There are still known bugs, it lacks documentation too, but at least now the less CVS-savvy users among you have a chance to give it a try. As always, I will welcome any comment, suggestion or bug report. Oh yes, bug me.

The title of this post refers to this idiocy.

A friend of mine wrote a script to generate an RSS feed of my notes and rants. Now you can be a victim too!

I just submitted a corrected version of a patch that fixes the OLSR daemon on NetBSD. OLSR is a routing protocol optimized for ad-hoc networking. It's useful in particular if you want to join the freifunk network, such as the one that happily radiates my neighborhood.

I'd really like to see a NetBSD-based distribution dedicated to this network. Maybe if my internet connection breaks on a rainy day...

I realize I haven't properly introduced my new professional activity here. Since october 2007 I am consulting on freelance missions for IT in general, and security in particular. After a bit of letter shuffling (but not totally without a meaning) I settled for DUEKIN Consulting. You can have a look at the website, although it still currently is overly simple.

Therefore, do not hesitate to contact me if you think I can help.

I finally have a decent internet connection at home again, after a three months break that was not really planned in the first place (not that I don't need a detox or something). I'll therefore resume my virtual activities, such as trying to fix stuff, implement some and sometimes writing about it.

Fair enough, TTYL.