Subj : Re: Polling - Still not a solution
To   : rick christian
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Fri Oct 21 2016 08:41 am

Hello rick,

On 21 Oct 16 07:40, rick christian wrote to Tony Langdon:

 rc> The Magic 3 Lines might work.... BUT they depend on YOUR SYSTEM HAVING
 rc> ALL the LIBS already... Well you need to list them in the steps!!! Not
 rc> ASS U me I have them OR ASS U I am going to decipher the cryptic
 rc> output of gcc.

 rc> Don't ASS U me that my systems have 1000's of libs for development on
 rc> them! They do not!

When compiling software on Linux, they are ASS U ME'ing you have the slightest 
idea on what you're actually doing with Linux (otherwise if there is a 
precompiled binary available, at least they choose to offer that to people that 
don't know what they're doing). One of the whole points of Linux is to make it 
your own and have the freedom to do what you want with it.

Precompiled linux desktop's are made to invite Windows users to make an easy 
transition over, but most people really interested in Linux (and not just 
because it's free), tend to spend some time to learn how to do things - and 
probably one of the first things would be to compile on your own.

A lot of the time when GCC has an error, you can simply put that error into a 
Google search and find what you are missing, or what needs to be installed. 
Sometimes Linux (just like any other OS) needs a little patience and 
understanding.

All the time you've spent here talking down compiling software you could have 
easily found and fixed every issue (if any) in trying to compile binkd. But you 
chose not to. Obviously the choice is yours to do so.

If you don't like it that much.. there's alternatives (like Windows) you can 
use.

Regards,
Nick

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