From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:05:43 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... Message-ID: <20080204020542.GG15093@nibiru.local> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 42e1e894-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > Plan 9 becomes the proof thereof, if autotools were as successful as > claimed, it ought to be trivial to port them to a different platform. > It isn't, nor is it necessary. In porting the code for libtiff and > geotiff to Plan 9 I added a few "mkfiles" to zlib, the jpeg tools, > png, gd and eventually libtiff and geotiff. The sum total of these > mkfiles is probably less than two thousand lines. But it is > impossible to feed these back to the developers, because they do not > fit into their philosophical scheme. Feel free to post the patches to the OSS-QM project: http://oss-qm.metux.de/ cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------