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Bastien finally got some mail. I hope he realizes there are more types of mail than just electronic ones :)

I was so damn tired yesterday. Spent ten minutes trying to figure out why some module wasn't building as a module, when I realized that in the Makefile I had put -DKNORENEKL instead of the NOKERNEL it needed. That's three typing errors in one word.

GStreamer

Spent a few hours today trying to figure out why nothing in the core was being i18n-ized. Then I started doubting if it worked at all, and realized nothing was actually being translated. Also, our Makefile.in.in in po seemed horribly outdated. So I gave up for the day.

Tomorrow I go through gettext again and make a skeleton module. Also, I need to figure out whether it's smarter to run gettextize once and commit stuff, or have it run from autogen.sh all the time.

Kernel module packaging

After polishing some of the macros for inclusion in autostars, I applied them to qc-usb, which has drivers for the webcams at work. The Makefile was again some ugly custom job, so I just threw it out and autotooled the whole thing in fifteen minutes.

Then I ran configure (with a kernel config thrown at it), make, and the module insmodded fine !

Tonight I try to write a small test kernel module, try to build it for a bunch of archs and types, and test them on the other machine. I'll install some smp and 586 kernels on it to make sure the versioning is right.

Then I need to reply a mail from someone who asked about it. I'm getting back to you soon, honest ! :)

Life Bastien finally got some mail. I hope he realizes there are more types of mail than just electronic ones :) I was so damn tired yesterday. Spent ten minutes...