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Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2009 19:41:11 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tex on plan 9
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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