Links ¶

• https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install

configure.ac ¶

• Written in m4sh (m4 + shell)
• Program initialization: AC_INIT macro—needs name, version, maintainer
• Initialize automake: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
• Make sure that C-compiler exists: AC_PROG_CC
• Build Makefile from Makefile.in, replaces @PACKAGE_VERSION@-type variables: AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
• Output the script: AC_OUTPUT

AC_INIT([hello-world], [0.1], [tyler@tylercipriani.com])

# Initialize automake
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

# Ensure C-compiler exists
AC_PROG_CC

# Specify what files are to be created
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT

Makefile.am ¶

• The ./configure script (created by configure.ac), expects to find Makefile.in
• Makefile.in is long and dumb (just like ./configure), so we make a Makefile.am
• automake generates Makefile.in
• foreign AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS tells that the layout is "non standard"

AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
bin_PROGRAMS = hello-world
hello-world_SOURCES = hello-world.c

Put it all together: ¶

• create m4 environment: aclocal
• autoconf does: configure.ac → configure
• automake --add-missing does: Makefile.am → Makefile.in
• autoreconf --install: autoreconf runs autoconf, autoheader, aclocal, automake, libtoolize, and autopoint

Install ¶

Mostly it was pretty easy

• Grabbed the tar from debian
• Followed install instructions from Ikiwiki's install page

tar xvzf ikiwiki_3.20160121.tar.gz
cd ikiwiki_3.20160121
sudo PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
sudo PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
make
sudo make install

OpenID Setup ¶

Ikiwiki requires an OpenID setup.

You can login to Ikiwiki with OpenID, and I think that's neat!

Since OpenID is somewhat dead, I decided to setup a personal SimpleID.

I put this all on the analytics server.

First I had to create a DNS record for openid.tylercipriani.com so letsencrypt would work.

Then I made a new letsencrypt cert:

/usr/local/src/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto certonly --standalone -d openid.tylercipriani.com

Then I grabbed and installed openid

cd /usr/local/src
curl -sLO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/simpleid/simpleid-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar xvzf simpleid-1.0.1.tar.gz
mkdir /srv/www/openid.tylercipriani.com
mv simpleid/{cache,identities,store,www} /srv/www/openid.tylercipriani.com
mv /srv/www/openid.tylercipriani.com/{config.php.dist,config.php}

Edited the config.php file, changed root webserver and the pretty url thing

I also made a virtualserver: openid.tylercipriani.com

Identity file: thcipriani.identity

identity="https://tylercipriani.com/"
password="blah:sha1:salt"
administrator=1
[user_info]
...
[sreg]
...

Blog setup ¶

The things that I didn't understand about Ikiwiki:

1. htmlscrubber removes all your scripts
2. Some changes to the setup file (like git_wrapper updates) require you to run ikiwiki --changesetup [setupfile]
3. I am running a staging wiki on my laptop, a wiki on my webserver, and then pushing the compiled files to s3: WAT‽

Contacts ¶

Install goobook:

sudo pip2 install -U goobook

I ran into some problems in arch, had to upgrade/reinstall a few deps:

(ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ sudo pip2 install -U pyasn1
(ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ sudo pip2 install -U cryptography

goobook then needs to authenticate with gmail:

goobook authenticate

Once you go through the oauth song and dance you should be able to run a query

(ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ goobook query tyler

thcipriani@gmail.com    Tyler Cipriani  other groups: "System Group: Friends"

From there, just need to add a bit of magic to the ~/.muttrc file

set query_command="goobook query %s"
macro index,pager a \
    "<pipe-message>goobook add<return>" "add sender to google contacts"
bind editor <Tab> complete-query

Viewing URLs ¶

Install urlview: ncurses program parses urls out of text.

Create a $HOME/urlview file:

COMMAND xdg-open %s &

Bind \,u in the editor:

macro pager ,u "|urlview<enter>" "call urlview to open links"

Searching Mail ¶

Searching works really well via notmuch

Afer install, setup via

notmuch setup

After setup, it's just a matter of calling

notmuch new

to index the things