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Halloween is not just for treats, it’s about tricks too. Most everybody I know loves a good Halloween prank, there are even sites dedicated to them. Today in my hometown was an example of Halloween pranks gone too far. The Indianola high school is closed today because vandals damaged the radiators on 14 buses last night. You can read more about it here. My Facebook feed has been consumed with the news today. Not only does this disrupt peoples schedules, having to find last minute baby sitting, etc… but the day will have to be made up at the end of the year. That’s not to mention the cost of parts for the buses and the overtime paid to repair them.

I feel sorry for the parents of the kids that did this. If the vandals are caught, what do you think is an appropriate punishment?

Warning!!! This post or it's embedded content has explicit material.

Since I upgraded my laptop to Snow Leopard, I’ve been trying to setup my development environment so that I can compile idl files. I need to do this for one of the Firefox extension I work on. I’ve been able to put this off for a while since my interfaces haven’t changed in a while. I’ve recently changed an interface so now I need to get the idl compiling setup. When I’ve set this up in the past, I haven’t had any problems. I install the gecko sdk, install libidl, and I’m ready to roll. This time I can’t make it work so I’m turning to you, the interweb, to help me figure this out. Here is what I’ve go so far.

I install the Gecko 1.9.1 SDK from developer.mozilla.org. I then install libidl using the following commands in MacPorts:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port sync
sudo port install libidl

Now, when I run my build script I get the error:

     [exec] dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libIDL-2.0.dylib
     [exec]   Referenced from: /Developer/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.1/bin/xpidl
     [exec]   Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
     [exec] 	/opt/local/lib/libIDL-2.0.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Figuring that libidl is compiled as 64 bit and the gecko sdk is 32 bit, I go searching the web. This leads me to a forum post on compiling Camino on Snow Leopard.

Mac OS 10.6 is 64-bit as native, while Camino is far from 64-bit ready. So cross-compiling to 32-bit is required.
First hurdle was to cross-compile and install the required libIDL library, in 32-bit. Luckily MacPorts contain a universal libIDL, so after I got the hint about “versions” I got that going using the command – “sudo port install libIDL +universal”.

Alright, so now I’m trying to install the universal libIDL file and I hit another error.

Command output:       _IDL_inhibit_get in libIDL_2_la-parser.o
      _IDL_queue_new_ident_comment in libIDL_2_la-parser.o
      _IDL_file_set in libIDL_2_la-parser.o
      ___IDL_do_pragma in libIDL_2_la-parser.o
      _IDL_ns_scope_levels_from_here in libIDL_2_la-ns.o
      _IDL_tree_properties_copy in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_walk2 in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_to_IDL in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_get_scope in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_remove_inhibits in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_property_remove in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_property_get in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_property_set in libIDL_2_la-util.o
  "_g_log", referenced from:
      _IDL_check_type_cast in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_walk_real in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_walk_real in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_emit_IDL_literal in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_get_node_info in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_get_scope in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_remove_empty_modules in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_remove_inhibits in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_process_forward_dcls in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _load_inhibits in libIDL_2_la-util.o
      _IDL_tree_free in libIDL_2_la-util.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libIDL-2.la] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Here is where I’m stuck. I have no idea what symbols are missing. Please, leave me a comment if you have any ideas on how to make this work.

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Rachel’s mom stopped by for a visit the other day and she left us a disc of photos she has taken over the past couple of years. We ran across this gem of Noah playing and dancing at Andrew and Holly’s wedding.

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Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies of all times. withonea has put together a great mashup of the Reservoir Dogs trailer and Teenage Mutant Turtles footage. Check it out below.
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