Crash*Burn*Smolder

[papercuppie]

When writing makefiles that will be used by other people, it's often a good idea not to use paths specific to your own system. Just sayin'.

*sigh*

Comments

[akilika]

Is this like people who talk about how cool their website is, and link you to C:\My Documents\website\index.html?

(Though I actually haven't run into that one in about five years . . .)

[papercuppie]

Very much like that! Even down to the fact that if the person who gave you the link clicks on it himself, it looks fine to him.

Basically, someone wrote a makefile that told the compiler to look for a directory that was named one thing on his system, but another on mine. It'd have been less annoying if it weren't nested eight directories deep. The person who wrote it just had a brainfart, though; he fixed it later.

[translucent_eye]

people may learn....someday.

[pakgwei]

The geneology software I usehas the ability to add pictures for people. But not only does it not encode the images right into the database, it uses an absolute link to the file on my system, so I cant even move the whole directory.

[papercuppie]

D'oh!

Rest assured that bad programmers go to a special hell when they die. One where they have to use all of their own software.