Very common questions I hear when dealing with  compiling open source projects are:

1. How do I cross-compile a project using icecc/icecream?
2. How to use a different compiler version for compiling my project and still benefiting from icecc/icecream?

Note: from now on I’ll always refer to icecream instead icecc/iceccd/distcc for the name of the project.

Given you already created your cross toolchain  (or downloaded from somewhere else, e.g.  CodeSourcery/Linaro) these two questions are essentially the same. All you have to do is to follow the two steps below:

1. Create the “compiler environment”

Understanding …

I released codespell 1.0.1 after a small fix that is really necessary for codespell working right. Thanks to Luis Felipe Strano that spot the bug and generated another giant patch to LLVM.

Grab the latest version below:

http://packages.profusion.mobi/codespell/

I’m glad to announce codespell 1.0! After 3 RCs and patches submitted to several projects, I thought it was stable enough to call it 1.0. You can download the 1.0 version below:

http://packages.profusion.mobi/codespell/codespell-1.0.tar.bz2

Seemy previous post if you are willing to know what codespell is or read the README file inside the package.

I have already filled a TODO file with ideas for the next version. They came to mind after I’ve generated a giant patch for the Linux kernel. It is the biggest patch I …

This week I’m in a release mood, so I’m releasing several projects I’m involved with. If you lost the first two, checkout dietsplash 0.3 and genslide 0.3 (though the announcement was in Portuguese).

After developing for several projects I’ve noticed most of them contain typos and misspellings. Even if this does not directly affect the source quality (unless the misspellings are in documentation), if we left the comment there, we’ve left it for a reason: because we want the reader of that code to stop and read it. It’s particularly good to …

I’m turning down my repository at politreco.com. All my projects are now available either on ProFUSION’s repo or on github.

É com satisfação que anuncio a primeira versão do programa genslide, genslide 0.3. É um simples programa que criei para facilitar a conversão de letras de música em slides, salvando-os em pdf através de Latex/Xelatex. Esses slides podem ser usados durante shows e cultos e venho usando-os já faz 6 meses na igreja que eu frequento. Embora ainda tenha bastante coisa para ser feita, ele já se mostra bastante útil e facilita bastante na hora de criar novos slides.

A ideia é que o usuário não se preocupe com muito com a formatação, apenas com a divisão de …