From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (1971 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:14:26 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id MAA09389; Sat Sep 23 12:14:28 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA01146 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:14:24 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000923122307.007a3290@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:23:07 -0500 Subject: Re: New user encountering problems In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000922225521.007db9a0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Oh, some program I was trying to compile that had an error in comm.c, something with getpeername and other stuff like that, it appears as there's more than one thing and it doesn't know which to use, and I'm not much in to coding, so these error functions really don't mean much. Also, certain things expect different locations for stuff, and it takes a lot of coding to change it, as debian wants stuff in different places than most distributions. At 05:08 PM 9/23/00 +1100, you wrote: >On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Brent Harding wrote: > >> I've liked debian for awhile, but tons of stuff won't compile, because the >> locations of files are a little screwy. > >Personally, I've found debian's file locations to be very standardised, and >I've never had much trouble compiling anything much (well certainly nothing >that was distribution-related). What problems have you struck? > >Geoff. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >