i love how literally every time i compile anything from source i always get fun new errors nobody else has ever seen before in the history of ever 👍

to be fair i have like….
…20 different versions of every library and package on my computer from 10 different distros across however many package managers so yeah

@kemona_halftau how…

@thing i wish i knew

@kemona_halftau how do you end up with all of this on one system? bedrock linux?

@noisytoot i dont know to be honest
i think i remember having trouble with gtk3 at one point, and i knew linux mint’s gtk3 package was okay, so i just kinda installed apt and setup ubuntu lts and linux mint repositories and then installed random stuff until things worked
and then i went from arch to gentoo and kept pacman installed (at this point i have like 3 lib/bin/include directories in separate locations)
…and then from gentoo back to arch while keeping portage

@kemona_halftau at this point i refuse to compile most projects outside of dedicated docker images the devs set up with the exact tools and libraries pre-installed, simply because doing that all by hand just to build a c++ project is so annoying

@kemona_halftau atp i’d backup and reinstall
because well. that is NOT normal

@kemona_halftau you switched from arch to gentoo and back again by converting your existing installation rather than reinstalling?

this reminds me of how the way I build coreboot with EDK2 is repeatedly alternating make -j4 with guix shell -s i686-linux gcc-toolchain@11 -- make -j4 until it builds without linker errors because guix’s GCC doesn’t have multilib support and some parts of coreboot/EDK2 require it while others won’t build with the 32-bit GCC (but if you alternate between the two enough eventually it will build)