From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:58:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ca601c3ac7c$063589c0$b9844051@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1068984706@[192.168.42.6]>
configure has two fundemental problems:
1) it only really knows about systems it's seen
2) it goes hunting for all sorts of crap in totally bizarre ways
and when that breaks you are in a world of pain
people who write code that use configure then decide to use
every possible facility provided that it may or may not find,
rather than a minimal subset that should work on most
systems.
i guess all that mmap() and shared memory junk is my fave.
i've never used it, never will.
isn't there come great horror, err war, story about those boys
from BSD who re-wrote cat to use mmap() which worked, as
it were, until cat & mmap() hit a pipe?
right, mmap me a socket ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-16 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 8:04 Aharon Robbins
2003-11-16 8:37 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-16 14:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-16 9:53 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-16 19:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-11-16 19:32 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-11-16 21:43 ` Dan Cross
2003-11-16 23:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-11-17 0:04 ` mirtchov
2003-11-17 0:04 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 3:18 ` Dan Cross
2003-11-17 3:28 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-16 21:46 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-16 22:24 ` mirtchov
2003-11-16 22:47 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-17 0:38 ` Mike Haertel
2003-11-16 22:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-11-16 22:41 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-18 12:54 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-18 14:11 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-18 14:55 ` Joel Salomon
2003-11-17 0:24 ` Enache Adrian
2003-11-17 12:16 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 23:16 ` Taj Khattra
2003-11-16 19:58 ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2003-11-17 0:30 ` [9fans] mmap (was configure misery) Geoff Collyer
2003-11-17 0:29 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 12:25 ` [9fans] Re: configure misery Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 0:42 ` John Stalker
2003-11-17 12:28 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 12:42 ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-17 12:53 ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-17 13:43 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 15:06 ` mirtchov
2003-11-17 15:35 ` David Presotto
2003-11-17 16:31 ` John Stalker
2003-11-17 17:19 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-01-30 15:30 [9fans] Re: [hangar18-general] Frustration Jim Choate
2004-02-03 17:11 ` [9fans] Re: configure misery rog
2004-02-04 16:48 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 3:49 Li Yi
2004-02-03 11:30 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-02-03 13:32 ` a
2004-02-03 15:34 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:29 ` a
2004-02-03 14:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-03 15:36 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:32 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-03 16:42 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 23:53 ` David Presotto
2004-02-04 8:13 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-02-03 15:33 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:27 ` a
2004-02-03 16:44 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-04 16:45 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 17:01 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-04 17:47 Spamm Trapp
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