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Thursday 17th Aug 2006
Every time I want to add another application to my computer, it must be compiled. I can't quite remember why, but a couple of weeks back I thought, "I wonder what would happen if I remove the C compiler, gcc, and try to re-install the latest version?" But, of course, how are you supposed to compile an application without the compiler? Who compiles the compiler? So that was fun. When I got gcc re-installed, the system was still being a bit . . . odd. It later transpired that part of my system was still believing in the previous installation of gcc (3.3.something), whilst another bit was more keen on the latest version I had just installed, 3.4.something. So yeah. . . . confusion all round. I read up some documentation on upgrading gcc and it turns out that, following the upgrade, most applications on your system want to get in on the action, get a bit of re-compiling going themselves. Turns out that there's about 589 such applications, one of which is a load of ATI graphics card drivers. Don't know what they're doing there. I don't even have an ATI graphics card. Oh. I think I'm meant to be ironing a shirt. Seems like I've been distracted again.

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