@casey Thanks. I have included the suggested changes

@Ramesh careful using my suggested configure command, that is an unverified stab at it. and far from the only command you need to run.

Look at my revision 5 to that post (it got nuked with your revision 6)

I'd go with that instead. Just "hey cross compiling is a lot of work, so lets do this instead" and just recognize your answer isnt at all about cross compiling

I just rolled back to your version.

I was not aware that you were making changes :)

and perhaps I'm a bit persistent in my critiquing, but your Q is already the #2 google hit for "gcc cross compile mips" so it should at least be internally accurate :)

that was the only change I was going to make

just clarify you decided to go with an alternate strategy than cross compiling

@casey, the main reason was gcc binutils and gdb decided to ditch me :)

I was fairly successful in setting up a cross compiler for arm.

But MIPS was little difficult.

really? it should be identical with the exception of the target

Is it? I think there are some extra dependencies in gcc.

@Ramesh Like what?

@FaheemMitha I will check and let you know tomorrow.

I have it noted down in the school.

Ok.

@FaheemMitha I've done my part to delay the next Debian release. (Ok, not really, I included how to fix the bug along with the bug report.)

@derobert mm? you sent a patch?

@Braiam Well, the patch is "change set -eu to set -e". I didn't actually send something that could be applied with patch.

I did the harder part of figuring out what that cryptic error message meant.

Is it correct to say user process are spawned in kernel space?

@terdon BTW: you might want to remove this comment unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128174/… ... probably a little strong now that it has that diamond after it.

@derobert @terdon - I edited that comment for ya

And now we all downvote that question to oblivion :-)

cool skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/18569/15158

@derobert I almost closed it but it's actually not that bad. Depending on the distro, he's basically asking how I can extract what I"ve installed from a livecd and customized out into a repeatable install.

Given it's fedora I'd go with a remix approach

does anyone here use taskwarrior?

mattdm asked a Q, it would be nice to help him out if possible.

is BTS slow for anyone?

BTS?

Debian's Bug Tracking System

@derobert Indeed, thanks. I deleted it. @slm what was it before? It was pretty harsh even after your edit.

@terdon comment history is available to mods, I thought...

BTW: unix.stackexchange.com/tags/ubiquity/info ... does that look OK? Curious about my suggestion to consider Ask Ubuntu.

@derobert to make BTS to forget that a bug is forwarded, one should use notforwarded #### or what?

@Braiam notforwarded sounds right... but I'd have to check the BTS quick ref card

@derobert No, not history. We can just see deleted ones AFAIK.

@slm Thanks by the way. I guess I was peeved.

@terdon Ok. Don't remember the exact wording, but it started off something like not to be offensive, but...

I bet Google's cache of the page has it.

@terdon it does: "I really don't mean to be rude but did you try simply copy pasting your question title into any search engine? There are literally thousands of posts explaining how to do this."

@terdon yeah no history on comments that I've found. It wasn't all that bad. The tone was try googling your title and here's how to do it on duckduckgo

Is it ok to have my answer over there?

Oh, well, that's not too bad then.

Quite restrained actually.

I mean seriously, copy pasting the exact title will find 100s of tutorials.

This is the original question and this answer was focussed on answering the first version of the question.

Now the question is changed and my answer seems out of place.

@Ramesh Well yes, but the change is not so radical. I was going to roll the edit back but the basic question is the same. He read your answer, tried it and updated the question accordingly. That's what the OP is supposed to do. The problem is when they move on to a completely different issue without posting a new question.

I understand how annoying it can be but in this case, I think that's a valid edit.

@terdon Thanks. Should I have my answer or delete it?

@Ramesh Completely up to you.

i decided to see if legend of grimrock 2 runs under wine, and well, there goes my afternoon... (yes, it does run)

@derobert Not as much as Ian Jackson, probably. :-)

Nice work.

@casey Why?

@Braiam Sometimes it gets backed up.

@slm Hmm? You forgot the link.

@terdon are you around? I'm off to do a bit of yoga, then will come back and post my errors about the ebl thing. I did find a version that worked. See ebi.ac.uk/Tools/dbfetch

@FaheemMitha Well, it's tough to live up to those expectations...

@derobert Ian manages it.

He's making life quite interesting for everyone.

@FaheemMitha yoga? what all you do?

I just started couple of weeks back.

@Ramesh Hmm, what?

@FaheemMitha like breathing exercises or cardio or sitting or standing?

@Ramesh Oh, stretchy stuff, mostly. A bit of cardio. We have an instructor come usually, but he's off this week. Diwali.

Ok, see you guys later.

cool. Enjoy your yoga. see ya.

@FaheemMitha Wait... what's he doing now? I haven't been paying attention...

@FaheemMitha - mattdm's Q

@derobert He proposed a GR. Which has actually got enough seconds to happen. I don't know the details. About init systems, of course. LWN has stuff on it. You want a link?

It looks likely to delay jessie, which everyone is unhappy about. of course.

This has been in the news for at least a week I think. There has been much argument and bickering about it on Debian lists. Unusually.

@FaheemMitha Nah, I can find it... GRs are easy to find.

So is LWN.

I'm apparently behind in my news reading since I read LWN

@FaheemMitha LOL, choice 4 is great:

@derobert yes, that's a good one.

For those following along at home, we are talking about debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003

Fun and games, courtesy of Ian Jackson.

Actually, Jackson's initial text seems quite reasonable to me. Of course, I don't know much at all about the subject.

@terdon Having tried this again, it works. Though querying for 'V00813' returns garbage. Not sure why at the moment. It would be helpful if a script like this would error out if garbage was returned.

Also,

But -O is the output flag? I guess maybe I'm not fully awake, but what I am missing?

@terdon Ok, weird. I do

wget -c "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/dbfetch/dbfetch?db=ena_sequence&id=V00813&format=fasta&style=raw" -O foo.fasta

and I get a fasta file returned, but foo.fasta is J00586. You're the biologist. I'm just clueless. What's the deal here?