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Hello, I have inherited a hand-me-down RIS kit with a functional RCX unit that I would like to learn to use and put to a purpose. I would like to build a system whereas the RCX is setup to press buttons on controllers (think remote control units) to (...) (14 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GCC 3.4.6 vs. 4.4.1
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Hi, (...) I would just like to add that this matches my experiences, although using some 4.0 version of GCC at that time: I wasn't able to produce working programs (not even sure about BrickOS kernel) using any GCC version newer than 3.4.6. This is (...) (15 years ago, 16-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Bibo Rollup Release
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I've been asked if I could make the patch collection updates available as a full-distribution release. Actually, I can't say that I blame that request. Most of the changes have already been covered in prior lugnet postings under the "BrickOS Patches (...) (15 years ago, 15-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 41 and 42. 41: Makefiles and the Esterel Synchronous Programming Language - The makefiles were updated to support building Esterel source (...) (15 years ago, 14-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | GCC 3.4.6 vs. 4.4.1
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While working on Bibo, I observed some unexpected differences between GCC 3.4.6 and gcc 4.4.1. Specifically, one of the XS Lisp demo programs that is fine when built with 3.4.6 is too large (section .bss not within region ram) when built with 4.4.1. (...) (15 years ago, 7-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. There is just one minor Bibo-specific update this time, patch 40. 40: H8/300 TOOLPREFIX - This patch comes from Debian, where "h8300-hitachi-coff-" is added to the list of (...) (15 years ago, 7-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 36 through 39. 36: RCX tty config file - Extends patch 32 so that /etc/rcx/device.conf will also be checked for a default tty. The (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 25 through 35. 25: Cleanup in the util subdirectory - Updated lnpmsg to more cleanly handle and process command-line arguments - Removed in (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) has been updated. This update adds a handful of patch files--20 through 24. 20: Nice group of Linux error/warning fixes from Carl and posted to SourceForge at (URL) Thanks, Carl! 21: (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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(...) I've been meaning to contribute more, but all too rare are the moments when my kids are asleep and a decent chunk of my brain is not. But anyway: I've fixed one little bug that stopped rcx_comm.c from compiling on Linux, plus some warnings and (...) (15 years ago, 17-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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