From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tex on plan 9
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:41:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10910051941t5c2d4c60t8092641fe3767043@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2901f468868d787fe01e0ca28d3a94c8@brasstown.quanstro.net>
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> i just hate how the rush to use every last new feature
> leads to things like gnu configure and autotools, and
> ancient warhorses like tex no longer running.
I last built the C version of TeX quite some time ago. At the time, it
was quite portable.
Imagine my surprise to go to the new stuff and find ... Makefile.in
... configure.
I had no idea. So much for a new port :-)
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 2:41 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <<13426df10910051716g4393d212r19346cc11bd2ff56@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 0:40 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-06 1:58 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-06 2:41 ` ron minnich [this message]
[not found] <<13426df10910051941t5c2d4c60t8092641fe3767043@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 2:45 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-06 4:19 ` ron minnich
2009-10-06 0:16 ron minnich
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