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RantWhenever I have to work with *nix, my mood always turns foul Pin
Marc Clifton10-Dec-15 6:53
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A dozen different package managers
Bizarre command line options
make, cmake, gmake, more ways to make than you can shake a stick at
while there's tons of open source stuff, every single one has some issue. A compiler error, the doc says X, the build does Y. Most of the "how to solve" involves having to update some obscure library.

It really amazes me people still work in something that I consider to be the stone age, if not the dark age. Built a simple python test for RabbitMQ, which worked, after discovering on SO that I had to create users on the RabbitMQ server, which requires three simple commands but wasn't documented anywhere clearly on the RabbitMQ site...

...then I realized, wow, this Python RabbitMQ library I'm using, there's like no Intellisense for giving me a clue as to what functions I use to set the username and password. Ignore the fact that I'm PuTTY'ing in to the BBB and working in a terminal. Nano bites. It took 15 minutes perusing the client documentation because the website is so crappy. I should be thankful there is documentation.

Sure, I can set up cross-compilation (have done so already with VisualGDB so I can use Visual Studio for C++ dev), went through the same motions with that fart of an IDE called Eclipse, it compiles code but can't find the GDB Debugger to do remote debugging (VisualGDB didn't have that problem because it's setting up some environment variables correctly), but regardless, that's another task...

(I'll post the Python RabbitMQ running on a BBB talking to a Windows RabbitMQ receiver as a "quick tip" or something soon.) Trying to get a C version working, because at least on the BBB, we'd like to work closer to the metal. Tried a C++ client, code wouldn't compile do to a change in the g++ compiler, was easy enough to fix, but the examples don't compile, screaming about a missing function for converting big/little endian. Spend all last night looking at compiler switches, etc., to figure out why the f***ing #defines in <endian.h> aren't being pulled in, still have no clue...

*Nix and the *nix world absolutely SUCKS.

Marc

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