[Coco] Nitros9 build fails

[Tormod Volden]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Bob Devries wrote:
> Hi Tormod and William,
>
> I followed the instructions on the Sourceforge wiki:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Building_NitrOS9/
>
> If this is wrong, why is it there?

It seems you must have missed the "Notes for Linux platforms" part?

The instructions can probably be made more suggestive of using stable
releases, and point out that you don't have to build what you install
prebuilt.

Don't get me wrong, it is important than people help out testing the
development versions of the tools as well. So it is great if people
build latest toolshed and lwtools and report issues. However, start
out with stable releases first to make sure you have a solid base!
Learn to drive a car before becoming a test pilot :)

>
> I'm using Lubuntu 14:10 because my linux box has limited resources; only 2GB
> memory. I tried to use 15:04, but it simply would not work reliably,
> especially when trying to build NitrOS9.

Thanks, that's interesting and good to know. My impression is that the
LTS releases are very good after their .1 release, and that non-LTS
releases is a waste of time, they have too many bugs that never get
fixed. Although I have the impression some LTS+1 (like 14.10) are good
also - maybe all the work on polishing the LTS .1 release keep
developers from adding too much new broken features into LTS+1 :) -
but their short support cycle is a no-go for me.

Tormod