Thomas Capricelli archive
Category: Gentoo
July 27, 2009
Installing an avr cross compiler in gentoo
One could think that this is as easy as crossdev avr but it is not, so i write here how I did it for future reference, and hopefully this will also be useful to other people. The first problem is that it does not check compatibility between toolchain members (binutils, gcc, …). Understandably, this is […]
June 15, 2009
tags displayed in hg activity extension
Today i have added a feature to my hg activity extension. I have wanted to have this for long : the tags are now displayed on the graph. Here are two examples, one of the project itself, and another one on the mercurial repository, but only for the last months. The first one was generated […]
May 7, 2009
mercurial and ipv6
Today I needed to use mercurial over IPv6 in order to share a repository which is on a computer behind an (ipv4) firewall, but that can be reached over ipv6. The naive hg clone ssh://orzel@ipv6computername/hg/dir hg clone ssh://orzel@[ipv6::address]/hg/dir miserably failed. But i was hinted on IRC (thanks ‘Ry4an’ !) on how to do this, and […]
March 10, 2009
Fixing qmake missing rule for *.ts -> *.qm
We are used to polished and great tools from the trolls, but qmake has always been the big exception to this: ugly documentation, lot of undocumented tricks, and missing features. For me the biggest one was that it would not automatically create the rule to transform *.ts to *.qm in the generated Makefile. I have […]
March 6, 2009
updating to KDE 4.2.1 : delete your plasma files (again)
Thanks to the great work of the gentoo KDE packaging team, I have been able to update to KDE 4.2.1 yesterday. And since then, a couple of processes suck up all my CPUs. The first one is a well-known issue : lancelot does that when used with Qt 4.5. Ok, this one was quick to […]
March 5, 2009
Support for ‘long double’ in Qt tests.
Qt supports most types for most compilers…… but long double. I do not know why. When asking on #qt (IRC), people say that nobody seems to care. Well… I do. long double have some use in scientific software at least. If you ever need to use long double in QTest, you will need to add […]
February 21, 2009
Quest for gdc in gentoo
It took me quite some time (and some grep) to find out how to install gdc on gentoo, so here is the answer for those facing the same problem. gdc is a gcc font-end for the D language, which has some advantages over other ones like dmd, but don’t ask which. (something like ‘support for […]
February 12, 2009
First release candidate for Opale
One of my pet projects (A simple bank account manager focused on graphs and planning) is about to reach 1.0. This first release candidate has been tested on several Linux systems and Windows. It can compile against KDE, but Qt is enough. (no, i have not yet tested with KDE/Windows…). So far, the only big […]
November 14, 2008
Mercurial bulk update
I don’t know about you, but I have on a lot of different places a directory called ‘hg’ with lot of different mercurial clones inside. Whether on the home of my several computers for my own projects, or inside other directories for external projects, and so on. Now, remember one important aspect of distributed source […]
November 13, 2008
Yet another activity graph : how often do you emerge ?
Really, I seem to be fond of activity graphs those days. I have reused part of this previous code, but this time I parse the emerge log file to display the activity of your successful emerges. Think of it as a graphical view of ‘genlop -l’. Those examples are the emerge activity of my two […]