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Anyone know of a live Jugtail (formerly Jughead) instance out in
Gopherspace? Was curious about how it actually worked interactively
but I've not had any luck finding it in the wild nor getting the
current code to build.
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Hello,

On 2025-09-03, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

Anyone know of a live Jugtail (formerly Jughead) instance out in
Gopherspace? Was curious about how it actually worked interactively
but I've not had any luck finding it in the wild nor getting the
current code to build.

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail
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On 9/30/25 8:29 AM, f6k wrote:

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail

Yup, that's the current code that fails to build.
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On 2025-10-01, Arti F. Idiot wrote:

On 9/30/25 8:29 AM, f6k wrote:

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail

Yup, that's the current code that fails to build.

How does it fail to build?
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Nuno Silva
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On 10/2/25 4:25 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-01, Arti F. Idiot wrote:

On 9/30/25 8:29 AM, f6k wrote:

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail

Yup, that's the current code that fails to build.

How does it fail to build?

It fails like this:

(debian 12.1, amd64:)

/usr/bin/ld: jugtail-search.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/search.c:175: multiple definition of `maxprocs';
jugtail-getargs.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/jugtail.h:109: first defined here

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:303: jugtail] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:606: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:224: all] Error 2
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It was thus said that the Great Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> once stated:

On 10/2/25 4:25 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-01, Arti F. Idiot wrote:

On 9/30/25 8:29 AM, f6k wrote:

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail

Yup, that's the current code that fails to build.

How does it fail to build?

It fails like this:

(debian 12.1, amd64:)

/usr/bin/ld: jugtail-search.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/search.c:175: multiple definition of `maxprocs';
jugtail-getargs.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/jugtail.h:109: first defined here

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:303: jugtail] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:606: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:224: all] Error 2

Just change line 109 of jugtail.h to read:

extern int port2use, maxprocs, maxitems2return;

That should fix the error.

-spc

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On 2025-10-02, Arti F. Idiot wrote:

On 10/2/25 4:25 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-01, Arti F. Idiot wrote:

On 9/30/25 8:29 AM, f6k wrote:

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail

Yup, that's the current code that fails to build.

How does it fail to build?

It fails like this:

(debian 12.1, amd64:)

/usr/bin/ld: jugtail-search.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/search.c:175: multiple definition of `maxprocs';
jugtail-getargs.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/jugtail.h:109: first defined here

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:303: jugtail] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:606: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:224: all] Error 2

The relevant bit here is probably the compiler and its version.

For GCC, version 10 changed the default behaviour regarding multiple definitions, which seem to be the issue here.

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-10/porting_to.html

So it's possibly worth a try to compile with -fcommon:

-2As a workaround, legacy C code where all tentative definitions
should be placed into a common block can be compiled with -fcommon.-+
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On 10/3/25 12:44 AM, sean@conman.org wrote:

It was thus said that the Great Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> once stated:

On 10/2/25 4:25 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-01, Arti F. Idiot wrote:

On 9/30/25 8:29 AM, f6k wrote:

For a live instance, I don't know; but for the code to build:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jugtail

Yup, that's the current code that fails to build.

How does it fail to build?

It fails like this:

(debian 12.1, amd64:)

/usr/bin/ld: jugtail-search.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/search.c:175: multiple
definition of `maxprocs';
jugtail-getargs.o:../jugtail-1.0.6/jugtail.h:109: first defined here

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:303: jugtail] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:606: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:224: all] Error 2

Just change line 109 of jugtail.h to read:

extern int port2use, maxprocs, maxitems2return;

That should fix the error.

-spc

That did fix things, thanks! After trying Numo's suggestion without
success I thought I'd re-try using pcc (portable C compiler) instead of
gcc with the unmodified jugtail.h and that also works.

-ai
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