Archive for the ‘PhD’ Category

Tools

(Moved over from my Massey site.
Future entries will be separate, but in the Tools category).
These are the tools that I regularly use, and which I would obviously recommend:

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Finding libstdc++.so.6

When I tried to build Python 2.4.1 on doublehelix I ran into two problems:

configure wouldn’t complete, saying that it couldn’t run compiled C programs.  I looked at the configure script and right before this it had something about not removing this section with autoconf 3.0:

# FIXME: These cross compiler hacks should be removed for Autoconf [...]

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The importance of priority

As part of my PhD research, I have to link together a lot of separate components, many of which are running on separate machines, as they’re too much for a single one. You’d think that this was relatively simple, given that a good non-blocking synchronous socket module is part of the standard Python library. [...]

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