Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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I'm going mad, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

This will be a semi-technical rant, so please bear with me. I need to configure our stand-alone DEV environment, so we can work in peace and not trash our main production server every time something runs amok. So, I need to install the JWSDP (java webservices development platform – [insert profanity here]), and a whole bunch of secondary components.

Of course, none of them want to play nice together.

I've been spending the last 2 days hacking configure scripts and Makefiles, trying to get components to compile. In some cases, it's not recognizing the dependencies (even though I KNOW they're there and working properly), in others, headers are missing or the include paths are incomplete. Pissy little details that you have to slog through hundreds of lines of crap to get to.

#
# Check for gd
#
        if test $CHECK = "1"; then
          echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... $ECHO_C" >&6
if test "$cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng+set= set; then
  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
else
  ac_check_lib_save_LIBS=$LIBS
LIBS="-lgd -L$-lgd -lpng -lz -lm $LIBS"
cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* confdefs.h.  */
_ACEOF
cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* end confdefs.h.  */

/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
   builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char gdImageCreateFromPng ();
int
main ()

gdImageCreateFromPng ();
  ;
  return 0;

_ACEOF
rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext
if (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: >&5
  (eval $ac_link) 2>conftest.er1
  ac_status=$?
  grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
  rm -f conftest.er1
  cat conftest.err >&5
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: = $ac_status" >&5
  (exit $ac_status); &&
         ac_try="test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag"
                         || test ! -s conftest.err'
  (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: >&5
  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
  ac_status=$?
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: = $ac_status" >&5
  (exit $ac_status); &&
         ac_try="test -s conftest$ac_exeext'
  (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: >&5
  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
  ac_status=$?
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: = $ac_status" >&5
  (exit $ac_status); then
  ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng=yes
else
  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5

ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng=no
fi
rm -f conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext 
      conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
LIBS=$ac_check_lib_save_LIBS
fi
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng" >&5
echo "$cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng" >&6

#Rcmodif - bug in GD detection - force it to detect
#if test $ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng = yes; then
  CHECK=1
#else
#  CHECK=0
#fi

I mean, I'm a geek damnit, and I have trouble following that.

What's pissing me off is that a lot of these components are still in alpha. They themselves say that they don't really know how everything will fit together. It's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole… except you're not even really sure what exact shape the hole is.

Fun, fun, fun.

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