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patched sources ... gentoo ... environment variables ... Please stop right there and think at the average Ubuntu user, or at a person that has used Windows as

by RSeldon 14y ago

patched sources ... gentoo ... environment variables ... Please stop right there and think at the average Ubuntu user, or at a person that has used Windows as his primary OS and just recently has tried Linux hoping to learn/try/test some C++0x/C++11 codes. Obviously the linked article was not written with a hard core Linux user in mind. I understand that, from where you stand, this is trivially simple. Just don't assume everyone has your experience.

tresta 14y ago
> patched sources it was for... I don't recall exactly, something non-standard gcc did with templates, possibly? Anyways, they sent me the sources pre-patched, I just compiled it. > gentoo that I didn't administer, I only used it. I was a real newbie at the time. I just figured that since you specified ubuntu... > I understand that, from where you stand, this is trivially simple. Just don't assume everyone has your experience. I see your point, though. I might be looking back at it with the rose-tinted glasses of experience. Also, when I first skimmed through it I only read up until the point where it said that it was complicated and then I got interrupted by the real world for a while, building suspense.