From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:19:03 -0700 From: Randolph Fritz To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Silly porting fun Message-ID: <20000712221903.A2758@cyber-dyne.com> References: <200007122330.TAA10568@cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from cnielsen@pobox.com on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 04:46:35PM -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d992679c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 04:46:35PM -0700, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > > The whole GNU configure script idea always seemed like a giant kluge to > me; an artifact of having to live in a world of various flavours of UNIX. > I sometimes think so too and yet...it works so very very well and there is just so much software that uses it. I don't think I've ever seen a configure script fail in a released program. (Just don't ask me to write the !@#% things! :) "I am in a maze of twisty Unix versions, all different." > Space monkeys ate my brain: No such file or directory Chuckle. -- Randolph Fritz Eugene, Oregon, USA