From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <090054c961a5151cabe817d1a3f724d6@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive From: Charles Forsyth Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:12:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <283f5df10605080804y56b0124ence29c4bd6cfbc3cb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f52490e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Well, for all the crap that autoconf addes, it still couldn't tell what was > wrong when building glibc. I had to build a tiny program to check out what > was really happening... i am surprised that many people still think that `autoconf' is short for `autoconfigure' when obviously it means `autoconformity': it ensures that your system conforms to the one system on which the software will compile and run without fuss. it does that by breaking in increasingly obscure ways until you agree to conform. or else.