From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question...
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:25:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10802021425g3a3997c6gee4adea985981317@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acb195480802021122t2ed0c4d1j823c505141eb4531@mail.gmail.com>
On Feb 2, 2008 11:22 AM, Juan M. Mendez <vejeta@gmail.com> wrote:
> So what are the facts to back up so many posts regarding autotools badness?
> Just curious.
1. it's not needed. See plan9 ports and lots of other tools that
somehow get by without it.
2. a 150,000 line configure shell script? That right there should tell
you something's seriously wrong.
but it happens.
3. it's not portable. Since the goal is portability, something has
been lost here.
4. Warning from the openib stack: you have version 1.59 (or some such)
of autotools, and I need 1.60
Oh, ok, there's a version of the configuration tools? What's wrong
with this picture?
It would all be funny but people actually use this stuff, and that's sad.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-02 22:25 UTC|newest]
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2008-02-01 0:22 Michael Andronov
2008-02-01 0:25 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-01 0:31 ` john
2008-02-01 0:30 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 0:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-01 2:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-01 8:50 ` John Stalker
2008-02-01 17:15 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-02 4:43 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-02 4:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 13:02 ` Steve Simon
2008-02-04 10:21 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 10:52 ` mattmobile
2008-02-04 11:12 ` Uriel
2008-02-04 11:47 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 15:42 ` Alf
2008-02-04 16:06 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 16:53 ` Steve Simon
2008-02-04 19:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 19:11 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-02-07 1:32 ` Uriel
2008-02-07 1:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-07 9:54 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 9:45 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 11:09 ` Uriel
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 14:32 ` [9fans] cross-compilation Charles Forsyth
2008-02-02 4:57 ` [9fans] A newbie question Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 7:12 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 14:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 15:30 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 15:33 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 15:48 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 16:04 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 16:34 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 16:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-02 17:41 ` Uriel
2008-02-02 18:27 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-02 19:22 ` Juan M. Mendez
2008-02-02 19:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-02 20:10 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-04 1:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-02 22:25 ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-02-03 0:17 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-02-03 0:30 ` Rob Pike
2008-02-03 7:51 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-03 8:44 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 9:30 ` lucio
2008-02-03 11:39 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 12:49 ` lucio
2008-02-03 13:25 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 14:10 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 2:05 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-08 16:40 ` plan9
2008-02-03 14:07 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 0:33 ` Uriel
2008-02-03 1:42 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-03 1:55 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 14:47 ` Paweł Lasek
2008-02-04 2:03 ` Enrico Weigelt
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2008-02-03 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-04 2:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 8:00 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 7:31 ` john
2008-02-03 15:01 ` dave.l
2008-02-03 15:10 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 21:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 22:01 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-04 1:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 1:11 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 1:19 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 1:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-05 2:23 ` David Arnold
2008-02-05 2:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-05 2:38 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-05 2:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-05 3:00 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-05 3:35 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-02-05 2:31 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-02 4:57 kokamoto
2008-02-04 12:12 gdiaz
2008-02-04 12:47 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 13:01 ` Uriel
2008-02-04 13:41 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-04 13:59 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-04 14:36 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-04 14:43 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 10:02 ` erik quanstrom
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