From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0274df161014387bcaa2140174c831a5@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <24cef4c322f9d480fa9dd6ff42482598@collyer.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:46:27 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8aef6d66-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>doesn't work that are a pain. If the configure authors haven't seen >>your particular variant system, ... that gets to the heart of it: for all it claims to do, it really only works well (and usually only works at all) as an enumeration of systems already seen; in which case you might just as well have config-i386-linux.h and be done with it. for instance, when i looked at a QNX paper on importing software i was impressed that configure worked for them until i realised that was only because a qnx variant is written into configure! what's the point? it has clearly become someone's life work, heart and soul poured into it, etc. but it's rather a waste of time. its author(s) should get out a bit more.