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GCC 4.6.1 on CentOS 5.6

Igmar Palsenberg — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:14:30 +0000

I’ve just created packages for CentOS 5.6 that replace the default compiler with gcc 4.6.1. That version has some interesting options, so I wanted to use that as my default compiler. It’s also more strict, so it’s a good check for my own code.

Packages can be downloaded from my RPM repo

Later today I’ll upload my binutils and gdb packages.

VIM 7.3 with Python 2.6 on CentOS 5.x

Igmar Palsenberg — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:43:33 +0000

I’ve been a OSX user for some time, but my main C development happens on CentOS. OSX has TextMate as editor, which has snippets : A sort of runtime macro’s on steroids. It saves lots of time with common language constructs such as loops.

Vim has a UltiSnips, but that has some preconditions : It need vim 7.3 with Python >= 2.6 compiled in. CentOS has neither of them. You can’t just upgrade Python on a CentOS machine, since lots of things (yum being one of them) depend on a specific version. So if you overwrite the default version, all hell will brake loose.

I’ve created packages for both Python and Vim (x86 and srpms), available at http://www.palsenberg.com/rpmrepo/

Happy VIMming !!!

Migrating to JIRA 4.4

Igmar Palsenberg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:28:51 +0000

Migrating to JIRA 4.4 is now complete. It has’t been without hickups however :

JIRA 4.4 en Fisheye 2.6.0-2.6.3 don’t get along when using trusted authentication. You get Seraph errors : Error handling trusted applications authentication attempt:BAD_SIGNATURE
Make sure the user that is authenticating the application link (and managing the JIRA project) has read errors to Fisheye projects. Else you can’t link you repo to the JIRA project.

Make sure you have adequate backups before attempting to upgrade. Without them, it’s a one-way ticket of something goes wrong.

Confluence

Igmar Palsenberg — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:32:12 +0000

I’ve installed an milestone of Confluence. I never liked the 3.x editor : Wiki just isn’t my thing. Fortunately, the 4.x release has a brand new editor, and it’s WYSIWYG. No more fancy tagging, no more thinking on what wikimarkup to use.

A nice addition is that it also allows macro’s to be embedded into that page. I’m going to use that to add some information of my own personal projects, like commit history.

Migrating to Atlassian tools

Igmar Palsenberg — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:14:58 +0000

So.. Finally found to spare time : I’ve migrated my old setup to include (most) of the Atlassian tools. I’ve got Crowd, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Fisheye up-and-running, with SSO authentication.
Next step is to figure out how to make Bamboo build my C / C++ projects (which use make, not Ant or Maven which are supported native in Bamboo). I also need to look at the testsuite, for which Bamboo assumes it generated JUnit XML reports. At this moment, it doesn’t. I’ll be opening Confluence spaces for most of my (old) projects soon.

Moved to VPS

Igmar Palsenberg — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:33:36 +0000

Today I’ve move all my personal stuff to a VPS. It let’s me run my own software (although I manage our company’s web server, I can now run several services I’m not otherwise able to use).

Email wil follow today, and so will be a restoration of all the personal project pages. I’ve lost some source due to a disk crash (and the stupid assumption that I’ve had backups), but I’ll put that info on the projectpages themselves.