As many of you know I run slackware64 13.1 on my computer, I recently converted my system to multi-lib via alienbobs tutorial which I highly recommend here. Many people have been running into compile problems with some of the build scripts that can be found at slackbuilds.org, particularly for the 64-bit version of the software, even when people add the switch:

ARCH=x86_64 ./whatever.slackbuild

they still get failed compiles, if you look through the output of the buildscript it is usually because the script, even though it was told to look in 64 bit library path for dependencies, still does not, and is actually looking in /lib instead of /lib64. I ran into this problem building transcode from slackbuilds.org and as I said above I am running multi-lib, so it failed because it was finding the 32-bit versions instead of the 64-bit version of dependencies it needed and errored out giving “could not read symbols” error. The cure for this problem on 64-bit slackware 13.1 is to add an additional switch called LDFLAGS to buildscript that points to your 64-bit libs like this:

LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/lib64″ ARCH=x86_64 ./gst-python.SlackBuild

and with that the gst-python and transcode and other slackbuilds started compiling correctly.

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$ ls -al *.*
$ rm -fr *.*

Well, my fathers mother, Jesse Dillard died today. I am filled with mixed emotions, she and I never had good communication, and it’s hard for me to think of the good things concerning her, she hurt me so much, and hindered me so much, it’s hard to be forgiving. After all is said and done though, I hope you find your way to the light grandma.

Happy Fourth of July Weekend Everyone! For this first time in 6 weeks I did not have to work the weekend, and am just trying to stay out of the heat, maybe swim, catch up on some reading and coding, currently reading “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman, it’s very good, it reminds me a lot of “The Secret History” and to some extent Harry Potter. [caption id=”attachment_401” align=”alignnone” width=”85” caption=”The Magicians by Lev Grossman”][/caption] I went out to Sushi today with a coworker of mine, and as always, it was delicious, i took a photo, but it came out blurry, so not posting it here.

Over the past few years my life has consistently been improving, I’m finding that I’m more outgoing, friendlier, motivated, and happier. For a long time I was angry that my life wasn’t what I wanted it to be, I felt that I had been unfairly derailed into some random life that wasn’t my choosing, but I realized that I was wanting life to be something it couldn’t be. My therapist brought up a very good point, and I have come to understand it, life doesn’t get any better than setting goals, and working towards them, it doesn’t matter if they are large or small, or if your progress is fast or slow, tallying up goals is a happy life. And I thought I was sooo far ahead of the curve (despite the fact that I began this sentence with a preposition) but all I had done was manage to estrange myself from the simple joys of my own life. Now things are getting better, and I’ve met a wonderful person. I have felt very attracted to the Buddhist ideas of impermanence, mostly because I never felt anything in life was lasting, or real, but for the first time in..well..forever, I feel real, I feel like I am here, and whats more…I want to be here.

I just don’t think I have what it takes to survive another Las Vegas Summer, I would give anything to be one of those people who “summers” somewhere else. It wasn’t even 100 yet today and I got sunburned and was dying from heat.

Well, Here I am. It seems there was a little slicing and dicing involved, lost a few posts and a few pictures, but all that will be fixed gradually. To prove that this is now my current and legit blog I will post my graduation photo:

Hello all,