[Toybox] [PATCH] probe for utmpx, shadow/getspnam, forkpty

[Isaac Dunham]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:06:14PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 10/31/14 11:59, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:14:04AM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> >> Probe for utmpx support, shadow.h/getspnam(), and pty.h/forkpty().
> >>
> >> Android does not provide any of these headers, so probe for them at
> >> compile time and select what to build based on presence.
> >>
> >> --
> >> This addresses some of the comments Jason Spiro referred to.
> >>
> >> If someone could test this with the NDK, it would be nice. (See links below
> >> for some info that *might* be helpful.)
> > 
> > This patch does not work right.
> > I've got a more complete and functional patch that I'll send shortly.
> 
> Meanwhile I've confirmed that my faster machine (and the one with actual
> spare disk space) can't install openjdk7 for the android open source
> project build because system76 shipped it to me with ubuntu 13.04 which
> was _not_ an LTS release and I left it too long and can't ugprade it to
> anything newer because ubuntu took down the servers.
> 
> No really: apt-get update gives me piles of:
> 
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com raring-security/main Sources
>   404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.14 80]

I always upgraded the Debian way: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point
to the next release.
Also, 

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

^ has apt archives for the unsupported versions.

> I thought you could still upgrade to the next LTS distro release even
> when they stopped offering new packages (I mean why _couldn't_ you?),
> but no. I have to reformat the box. (Which has all my email accounts and
> filters set up on it, so if I do that I probably lose access to email
> for a couple days.)
> 
> So happy with Canonical. So happy with System76. The enthusiasm is just
> radiating off me in waves right now.
> 
> Rob

HTH,
Isaac Dunham

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