Re: [9fans] First-timer help

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

>>> So, is it a proper use of the word ironic if autoconf, designed  
>>> to make
>>> code location-independent, is itself failing because autoconf  
>>> itself has
>>> become very version-sensitive? Inquiring non-english-majors want  
>>> to know!
>>>
>
> it might be `ironic' if `autoconf' had ever met its notional  
> specification.
> `autoconf' is not even an `oxymoron', just a `moron'.  actually, i  
> suppose `idiot savant' might
> be most accurate: it's really a collection of all the recipes  
> they've met so far, but give
> it something new or a revision of something old, and it is  
> completely lost.
> it has far too many peculiar details built in to it.

Yep, and getting new OSes supported "upstream" is way more of a  
hassle than it should be
for such a tool.

I doubt DragonflyBSD ever gets its stuff detected or installed  
properly without patching.

Dave