[CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

Fri Jul 8 15:04:56 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> You claim to be a software developer so surely you realize the
> importance of relevant information to assist in
> debugging/troubleshooting. Yet what you're doing is the equivalent of
> complaining "My program won't run, it just stops with an error at this
> point", then refusing to provide a trace or output log, insisting that
> "you can see it by writing the same program".
> 
> Mr Hodrien already demonstrated how to provide the information. Could
> you not at least follow suit, copy and paste the relevant commands
> leading up to the problem? If you had done so, he would had known the
> problem occurred after that point and might had actually went past
> when he stopped to see if he was going to get the same problem. But
> because you refused to provide any information, he or anybody else
> probably won't be bothered to waste time shooting blindly hoping to
> reach the step where you got stuck.
> 
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> "Building" a simple test case in this situation is as simple as
> narrowing down the steps and changes leading to the problem. Your
> refusal to provide relevant information probably wasted more time than
> anything else. One is almost tempted to think this was an elaborate
> troll :D
+1