I know how you feel after trying on and off all last week getting SDL, Perl_SDL and some other libraries up to the most current snapshots on my Debian box.

Lot's of confusion and groping but finally get it to work. Then I bump up my nvidia drivers to the latest and now it needs to be reinstalled after every reboot.

After much head scratching, log searching, it appears the nvidia init.d script unlinks one of the modules as it shuts down. The frustrating part was it's not logged anywhere. Thank goodness for the "immutable" flag.

Once everything works, it works great until you need to change something that's near the bleeding edge. Then shudder.

Funny thing though, I actually worked in plumbing supply in the early 90s. I still don't trust plastic pipe for anything but drainage. The first generation of plastic pipe (Polybutylene) was a disaster. Had the nasty habit of bursting quite often and usually when you weren't home. It lead to a bunch of class action lawsuits against Shell Chemical and to it being discontinued after 1996.

Not sure how that fits into the analogy :)


-Lee

perl digital dash (in progress)

In reply to Re: Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source by shotgunefx
in thread Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source by talexb

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