[Dependency hell]
Wanted to install something but the binary wouldn't run on my old Ubuntu so I need to compile from source, but that needs pnpm, which needs a newer node, but the binary from nvm won't run so I need to compile that too but my C++ compiler is too old so I need to update that […]
Wanted to install something but the binary wouldn't run on my old Ubuntu so I need to compile from source, but that needs pnpm, which needs a newer node, but the binary from nvm won't run so I need to compile that too but my C++ compiler is too old so I need to update that […]
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Update: node is still compiling. This gives me plenty of time to remember whatever it was, assuming nothing goes awry. Laptop is nice and toasty to type on.
Update: still compiling
Update: node has compiled, after only a couple of hours during which I have done my daily violin practice and made dinner. Finally installed pnpm, downloaded the source code of the thing I wanted to install and...
*drumroll*
It doesn't compile.
Joy.
Not only this, but looks like it will never compile, because it depends secretly on a minimum version of glib-2.0 which is still two LTS releases away from where I'm at, and there's no way of shoe-horning that in without breaking a whole bunch of stuff I'd rather not break […]
No en-croissant The Ultimate Chess Toolkit for me, then.
I *could* raise an issue saying 'does not compile on ancient versions of Ubuntu' but I suspect a reasonable answer would be 'no shit, Sherlock, it won't run on a 286 either, closing this up as silly' or similar.
It's […]