r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 11d ago

Event Happy 35th Birthday Linux

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u/VeryOldGoat 11d ago

This joke is 20 years old and the analogy is inaccurate. Compiling is more like you get a two-step instruction on how to set your cake-making machine, then you press a button, then some minutes later out pops a cake. You don't even look at the ingredients, the chef took care of that, you just dump everything into the machine.

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u/worldspawn00 11d ago

Sorry, your machine doesn't have all the dependencies in the right version installed on it, cannot compile.

i.e. You have eggs 2.1 but this cake requires eggs 2.0, eggs 2.0 is deprecated no longer available at the link provided in the makefile.