DEV-DIARIES
NiceBSD Dev Diary 2015-03-03
“How does a deadline slip?”
“One day at a time.”
If I recall correctly, that gem is from Fred Brooks in Mythical Man
Month. I took the weekend off for some badly needed rest, and then
yesterday and today got largely soaked by work. Still, made a bit of
progress with the cold boot. I looked into why the file server wasn’t
working for the build process. I attached to screen, and saw that I
needed to add lfp.h. “No problem!” So I started looking
around for it in the Fedora repos, and could not find it. That header
file is part of libfixposix
which fortunately built on the first go. After I added an entry to
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/ ldconfig found the new libraries. Now
that I’ve got file-server loading, next step is to figure out why the
image is timing out trying to connect to it (I suspect I may have to
play with QEMU and tcpdump in the morning).
I read a few interesting articles on Lisp culture today: