From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
From: "David Arnold" <davida@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 2006 19:09:46 MST."
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:35:22 +1000
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-->"Lyndon" == Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> writes:

  Lyndon> If you weed out the bits that are already in Posix

one problem with a lot of code is that it's also "portable" to Windows.
using a manually-created config.h, and AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, the source
itself can maintain some internal consistency, if not total cleanliness.

  Lyndon> And why the configure script cares about what version of
  Lyndon> FORTRAN 77 compiler I have simply escapes me.

likely because it uses libtool, which automatically checks for FORTRAN
and C++ compilers, linkers, support for PIC, etc, regardless of whether
they're actually needed :-(

the benefit of libtool is that it centralises the magic required to
produce a shared library across various operating systems, compilers and
linkers.  it's a tradeoff most people are willing to make.




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