I know I'm a bit late in menting this, but a few posts back there was a bit of confusion with where 'make clean' should go.  I think people may have been getting confused with 'make distclean'. 'make clean' should just remove old object files, etc (things generated AFTER make is executed) leaving the configure file, etc intact.  'make distclean' will do the same as 'make clean' AND it will remove the configuration file, etc too.  So 'make clean' should be safe to run after a autogen or configure command, 'make distclean' won't be safe.  If you get an error when you type make clean that there is nothing to be done, that usually means that it's already clean.

I would imagine a good thing to do when building a new version is definitely to run 'make distclean' first to clean out old configs as well, especially if the build process has changed.  Even better would be to just 'sudo rm -r ' and do another git clone of the repo, then you know you are safe and don't have anything lying around if you are having problems with the build process.

I realise this was not the original posters problem in the end, but just though it should be mentioned for when people compile other things.
Alex

My refund came in through the night, thank you so much Sebastian for all your hard work.  In fact just spending the money on parts to build a new HTPC to run XBMC on (Haswell and everything, quite a beauty).  I know this sounds like quite noob question, but what is the conscientious on the bet way toi turn the BTC into GBP? I've used localbitcoins.com in the past, but there seems to be quite a difference between that and MtGox.
Alex

Brilliant news, I honestly did not expect the refunds to happen that fast (a part of me even thought they may not happen at all), so I'm very pleasantly surprised.  Can I be a bit cheeky and ask when the refunds will down filter to us?  I appreciate there are a lot of calculation to do beforehand.
Alex

I think to minimise the stress to Sebastian, we shouldn't be thinking of "ifs", just hope that everyone PMs him in a timely manner with their PREFERRED action, and after either everyone has got back to him, or a set time, tally up how many chip orders remain, and then see the situation (maybe counting people who have not been heard from as still wanting their orders).
Alex

He he, you are right.  Thank god for someone with a sense of humour in all this.

I hope that if the refunds do go to plan (HA HA, there's another joke for you because I hope upon hope for the organisers of the groups buys they do, but you know they won't), that we use a proportion of the refunds (in real world money, as that is what they will have had to spend) to make sure that the Group Buy Organisers AND the board makers are not left in financial trouble either.

No problem, do you want us to just post here, like others have done, or would you rather a more organised (and possibly easier for yourself) approach and for us to wait for a private message or an email from you?

For those getting upset on loss of revenue (god, honestly some people will never be happy to just get a ROI, were as the hobbists like myself would have been happy with a bit less than the ROI as playing with the stuff is part of what they pay for), at least the price of BTC in hard cash has gone up since you bought them, so have made some money, so stop moaning and think about the kind organisers of all this who have gone through so much.  They not only have the same stress as the members of the group buys that their own chips won't arrive.  But they have the stress of moaning minnies who only think of think of themselves, the stress of organising the group buys to begin with, the stress when people started to transfer their chips on, the stress of trying to contact Yifi with no answer, or whatever his name is again and god only knows what else.  There are some who seem to be of the opinion that the organisers should take the hit and refund in full the members of the group buy.  B*ll*cks, we are all in this together, and the refund should be spread equally over the organiser and the members.  Why should should the people who have been the most help, put in the most work and effort, and and had the most stress suffer more.  In organisers I think we should include board makers as well.  These people have been invaluable to us all.  They have kept us up to date, even if just to say that there is no news.  But at least we then knew.  Don't shoot the messengers and the helpers.  All of the very angry people, stop posting on here, and send it to that Yifi lad.  Nobody else deserves it.

Right, I'm off my pedestal now, he he.  Hope the refunds go smoothly for you Sebastian, and again thank you for all you've done.  Unfortunately though, there is a part of me that thinks Yifi will c*ck up the refunds too.

Alex

He he, I have to agree that it is the hobbist/enthusiast in us that is wanting to use a Raspberry Pi.  We may as well plug them into our main PCs or as you say a second hand laptop.  But that's not a challenge, the Raspberry Pi means you have to keep on playing with it and tweaking it, and keeps you entertained.  The cost has nothing to do with it.

Why not do what other people have done with their chip orders, and actually sell your board and chip order combined as an auction?  That way you will get back far more than Burning could give you (you may make a bit of a loss, or even a profit, but I doubt that).  Also burning won't be left with unused stock.  Also you won't sound so ungrateful, which is what you do now.
I understand the panic because of the delay in chips, and how much money you invested, but so have others and they are not acting like you.  The phrase "grow a pair" comes to mind, you just had to think of alternative solutions, as I have done for you above.
Alex

He he, what year are you in?  The first day of every year on my undergrad had major induction classes for what was happening through the whole year (as well as the customary BCS seminars trying to get you to sign up for student rates [not that I did of course .. cough cough {slowly makes sure e-mail address is hidden leading to incriminating evidence, ha ha}]).

Yikes, I'm about to look into getting cgminer or something to mine all the coins that CGWatcher supports with it's profitability calculator, sounds like I'll be running into a whole world of pain if some of them require more exotic settings.  Why do I do this to myself?  Ah the fun of tinkering, he he.
Alex

Yeah, there are so many 'monitor' web apps and real apps out there, you will find one that does what you want.  I like CGWatcher for windows, as it relaunches CG/BFGminer whenever a card/fpga/asic/spotted kangeroo/etc dies.  The web apps, tend not to do that, but they are more portable, and work on mac and linux too.  So do the python ones, etc.  Just do a search on this very subforum for monitor, and see which one you like the most...
Alex

Brilliant, it works perfectly.  Thank you for all your hard work.
Alex

Really? I would have thought the scope would have been within the Dos Box lifetimne, or at the very most until a reboot.  That is worrying.

Sorry, I wasn't feeling very well yesterday.  I know you edited the post to say you fixed the problem, but just in case here is the debug info (plus it forced me to install Click.To, which I'm very happy about)!
http://pastebin.com/zPrmuPN0
Alex

The variables are the two environmental ones needed to be set for LTC mining (they are the first two lines in the bat file)

I've tested version 1.2.8.1 (oh by the way, it didn't get picked up when I clicked 'Check for updates', not sure why).  Unfortunately the problem is still there for some reason.  It's weird, as the unquoted and cropped temp.conf file path Folders\Downloads\Compressed\CGWatcher-1.2.7\temp.conf shouldn't even be there, as it's properly quoted and has the full file path and --config argument at the end!?!?!  It looks like maybe something left over from a split or last element in an array being left there.  It is also possible that if you are reading in the cgminer line from the original conf file that it treats the path as two tokens (even though it is quoted), and the Folders\Downloads\Compressed\CGWatcher-1.2.7\temp.conf is actually just garbage not removed as there is one more token than expected.  Just guesses of course, hope you manage to find the cause.
Alex

There's still many possibilities:

• You could try CGWatcher in Wine (not tried it myself, and it needs .NET 4.0, but it may work)
• You could use this python based Miner Monitor https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232232.0, not tried it myself, but it sound popular
• You maybe able to use this smartphone App (Windows, iOS & Android) so you can control it on the move http://www.mobileminerapp.com/, again not tried myself
• Search this subforum for monitor, there are quite a few
• Or just use Kano's (CGMiner Co-Author) simple script here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg2966960#msg2966960

Alex

Hi, there seems to be a bug with this new feature if you start the miner using a bat file.  I use one as I am mining LTC, so I need to set the two variables beforehand.  But the temp bat file seems to mess up if there are spaces in the temp config (i.e. CGWatcher) path.  e.g:
Original Bat File:

Temp Bat File:

Note how the path to the temp file is not quoted, and starts at "Folders", chopping off the initial "D:\Windows "

Just though you should should know.  Also I have to congratulate you for a brilliant program, the ability to restart a GPU/ASIC when sick and you aren't there is a lifesaver.  Plus the program is so configurable, easy to use, and love that it describes the config file settings, and automates a few things.
Alex

CGWatcher has just added an option for sick FPGAs and ASICs (or at least enabled it by default) if you are running windows.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=185553.0

Yeah, I use CGWatcher http://manotechnology.blogspot.co.uk/p/cgwatcher.html on windows, there are a few web based ones for Linux too.  the are very handy, and restart CGMiner when it gets a bit confused, or graphics/usb driver restarts, etc...

I'm interested in TVTorrents.com, BroadcasThe.net, passthepopcorn and comic-bt.  How much would they be?