Subj : mirdir utility
To   : Alexey Vissarionov
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Mar 21 2019 17:27:55

Hi! Alexey,

On 21 Mar 19 09:18, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> Does anyone use it?
 AV> No. I have rsync.

Gesundheit.

 PQ>> (Thank you, yes, I have used 'rsync'... it sux maximum kilowarps.)
 AV> Generally you'd get a well predictive "fuqoff" answer just here...

It's better than nothin'.

 PQ>> There's more to the story, so I'll bring out the violins... I
 PQ>> have a tarball for the util,
 AV> I hope you've downloaded it from
 AV> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirdir

Oh, look... now I have two.  It must have been them.

 PQ>> but this 64bit Xubuntu (model of Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS)
 AV> Ffffuuuuuuu...

Gesundheit.

 PQ>> can't find its "configure". I hate it when they do that.
 AV> It is there, but it is unnecessary.

You know this... how?  Ah, so...

 PQ>> Would anybody have either the 64bit 'mirdir' or a compatible
 PQ>> 'configure' for U'u, pretty please?
 AV> gcc '-DPACKAGE_STRING="mirdir-2.1"' -O2 -s -o mirdir mirdir.c

Mmm... whiteman's majic,  Thank you, kindly.  You are a gentleman despite what 
some people may say.

 AV> Ah, yes: I've a fully working RPM build environment set up here.

Gesundheit.  I used them over a decade ago, then gave them up.

Cheers,
Paul.

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