Tips and Tricks

Positive returncode in makefile

diff -w -y --suppress-common-lines --width=32  bf.tmp pn.tmp || :
                                                             ^^^^

Running Delphi programs under Linux

• Install wine and xvfb for headless terminals.
• For Intraweb applications, determine a free port, for example 8080.
• Create and fill a MySQL database on the Linux server, and configure that database in the Delphi application.
• Move the delphi.exe together with libmysql.dll (version 5.59 extracted from a MySQL-Windows-Distribution) to some directory under Linux.
• xvfb-run wine delphi.exe, then Ctrl-Z and bg
• Open the application in a browser with the URL http://www.punctum.com:8080/$/.

Perl CPAN

• perl -MCPAN -e shell, autoconfig follows
• amend environment:

PATH="/home/User/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"; export PATH;
  (add "/home/User/perl5/bin" to PATH)
PERL5LIB="/home/User/perl5/lib/perl5${PERL5LIB:+:${PERL5LIB}}"; export PERL5LIB;
PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/home/User/perl5${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT:+:${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}}"; export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT;
PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base \"/home/User/perl5\""; export PERL_MB_OPT;
PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/home/User/perl5"; export PERL_MM_OPT;

• install bigint

Rosetta Coding

• from Michael Somos

Debian dist-upgrades

Wheezy to Jessie

• Ignore:

Setting up makedev (2.3.1-93) ...
/run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
/run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
/run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.

• Ignore:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-6-amd64
W: mdadm: unchecked configuration file: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
W: mdadm: please read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz .
W: mdadm: no arrays defined in configuration file.

• Apache2: rename all in /etc/apache2/sites-available to *.conf, remove the symlinks in sites-enabled/ and recreate them with a2ensite; clear the browser cache thereafter.