Mixing 64 bytes and 32 Bytes Libraries on Solaris

Remind to myself to use the switch -64 on solaris with crle to tell
the linker on solaris to get the linker ’seeing’ 64 libraries.
I wonder why everything is not as simple as linux thought where we
have everything in one place with /etc/ld.so.config

Filed under: Solaris on April 29th, 2006 | No Comments »

Python 2.5 Beta

I have been looking at the What’s new of Python 2.5. There is some cool features inside it :
Conditional Expressions:
This stuff basically allow to do standard C idiom (that we found in every kind of derivative language) like
a = condition ? “true” : “false”
the weird part is that Guido Van-Rossum implemented this syntax :
x = [...]

Filed under: Python on April 9th, 2006 | 2 Comments »