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Hacking on old code
Jun. 20th, 2023 07:02 pmSo, while my MacBook Pro is crying about me compiling some Perl things, I want to mention that I ended up grabbing Steve Kemp's old Perl-based blog compiler/SSG, Chronicle. I've been wanting to hack on this thing for a while to run my blog, mostly because I happen to like Perl as a language.
Python both pisses me off, and is one of the reasons I nearly swore off programming as a whole, due to my early interactions with that community being on-par with that of many Arch Linux vocalists: "RTFM", and nothing else. I've been using Pelican, a python-based SSG engine, for my story and writing blogs for a while. But I want to be able to actually work on the backend software for my own uses, and given Chronicle is Perl...why not?
Well, I already ran into a problem while grabbing all of the dependencies. "-fstack-protection-strong" is not available with older gcc and clang compilers, so I had to go into my Perl configs, open "Config_heavy.pl", and change the ccflags entry to "-fstack-protection" instead. After that, everything started compiling just fine.
Right now, I'm going through the template docs to make one of my own. Probably a dark theme, thinking Black-Amber or Black-Green like an old monochrome CRT terminal. We'll see what I can come up with, though.
Python both pisses me off, and is one of the reasons I nearly swore off programming as a whole, due to my early interactions with that community being on-par with that of many Arch Linux vocalists: "RTFM", and nothing else. I've been using Pelican, a python-based SSG engine, for my story and writing blogs for a while. But I want to be able to actually work on the backend software for my own uses, and given Chronicle is Perl...why not?
Well, I already ran into a problem while grabbing all of the dependencies. "-fstack-protection-strong" is not available with older gcc and clang compilers, so I had to go into my Perl configs, open "Config_heavy.pl", and change the ccflags entry to "-fstack-protection" instead. After that, everything started compiling just fine.
Right now, I'm going through the template docs to make one of my own. Probably a dark theme, thinking Black-Amber or Black-Green like an old monochrome CRT terminal. We'll see what I can come up with, though.
