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   HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 03:41:55 JST HP van Braam

   Trying to build #SDL2 for #solaris 8 today. There's really no better way to spend a dark Sunday afternoon.

   #retrocomputing

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 03:41:49 JST HP van Braam

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     I don't know what I was expecting...

     #retrocomputing

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 03:41:51 JST HP van Braam

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     You know, I "lived through this" on #linux before , but I honestly forgot just how ridiculously better #gcc 3.4 is than gcc 2.95.3.

     I remember the upgrade when this was all current.

     But hot damn, how did we ever manage with GCC 2.95. (No shade at the GCC project here, a large part of that was just how garbage older C/C++ is)

     #retrocomputing

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 03:41:52 JST HP van Braam

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     ✅ gcc version 3.4.4
     ✅ GNU Make 4.4.1

     Surely now nothing at all will go wrong right, right?!

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 03:41:53 JST HP van Braam

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     The current levels of #yakshaving:

     * I want SDL2
     * SDL2 configure needs a gsort that has the -V option
     * Coreutils 9 needs a newer gmake
     * gmake-4.4.1 doesn't seem to want to build on 2.95.3

     #retrocomputing

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 03:41:54 JST HP van Braam

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     I think this is what we call in the biz "A bad omen of things to come"

     #retrocomputing

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 09:38:46 JST HP van Braam

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     SDL1 is fiiiiiiiine

     #retrocomputing #sunpci

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 09:38:47 JST HP van Braam

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     Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.32.8 for #solaris 8? No, no I did not.

     Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.0.22 for #solaris 8? Also... No.

     BUT! Did I manage to build and run SDL-1.2.15!!

     No, also no.

     However, finally. SDL-1.2.6 is working fine with only a minimum of fuss.

     Maybe the real SDL2 were the friends we made along the way.

     I guess I'm writing SDL1 code... :)

     #retrocomputing