Cool story bro

On Sat, 26 Nov 2022, 09:20 Dave Blanchard, <dave@killthe.net> wrote:

> No, I'm not trolling, just venting here for a moment. So sick of garbage
> ass, crusty junkware that's always a battle to the death to accomplish
> anything.
>
> I really understand where Liu Hao was coming from yesterday when he was in
> here raging against the AT&T assembler. I could sense the bitterness and
> disgust in him, the kind that can only come from a lifetime of bitter
> disappointment in the status quo. It's like he's just as sick and tired as
> I am of broken ass, buggy software.
>
> GNU GCC/GLIBC IS THE MOST PAINFUL PIECE OF SHIT FUCKING SOFTWARE ON THE
> PLANET TO BOOTSTRAP.
>
> Not even the flaming pile of dogshit that is PYTHON comes close to the
> misery and hell awaiting any hapless person who wants to accomplish what
> ought to be the Simple And Straightforward Fucking Task of bootstrapping a
> cross-compiled GNU gcc/glibc/binutils system.
>
> I have been working on this project FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR and the pain just
> never seems to end.
>
> I've encountered every shitty, stupid, inane, puzzling, worthless,
> completely nonsensical error message that could possibly be generated by a
> piece of software, which almost NEVER leads toward figuring out exactly
> went wrong, but usually just deeper into the quagmire.
>
> Seemingly the only way that will ever finally get this junk working is to
> just sit there randomly trying different stuff in the hope that it somehow
> moves one closer toward getting something that works right.
>
> /rant
>
> --
> Dave Blanchard <dave@killthe.net>
>