[ILUG] Someone made a booboo - Call for help

[Richard Eibrand]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:00:39 +0100, Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie> 
wrote:

>   | From: Richard Eibrand <richard at eibrand.net>
>   | Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:09:28 -0000
>   |
>   | [... somewho (not Richard!) who does not know what a backup is,
>   |  does not use versioning tools/storage, and apparently deliberately
>   |  turns off edtior auto-backups ] inadvertantly mixed up his command
>   | line call to g++, and passed an old object file as the source code,
>   | and the source code file as the -o output name.  [ ... ]
>
>  was s\he testing her/his `Makefile' for the first time,
>  or does s\he also not use make(1)?

I believe he does know what backups are, but in this case, this one missed 
the loop (as it happens at times). Nope, he was not testing his 
'Makefile', as this person is not much of linux coder, and does not use 
make (yet... will try and let him know the error of his ways)

> i.e., _why_ manually type such commands (other than in unimportant 
> one-offs)?

Because thats the only way he knows how (as this is what I believe he was 
thought in college), and it was only a one source file program.
>
> geesh (and good luck!  and merry years), cheers!

geesh is right, cheers,

R


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