The problem was that autoconf didn't configure nor test conformity: it
passed along without warning that
I was missing some important thread crap that changed betwixt versions it
seems. So for the half
our conformity test/configuration, it still wouldn't actually tell me what
was really missing, which was
fun because it kept passing the thread test sections...

On 5/8/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>
> > Well, for all the crap that autoconf addes, it still couldn't tell what
> was
> > wrong when building glibc. I had to build a tiny program to check out
> what
> > was really happening...
>
> i am surprised that many people still think that `autoconf' is short for
> `autoconfigure'
> when obviously it means `autoconformity': it ensures that your system
> conforms to the one system on which the software will compile and run
> without fuss.
> it does that by breaking in increasingly obscure ways until you agree to
> conform.
> or else.
>
>


--
Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes
without saying and is "contructive and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of
crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there is
nothing final about it. Thus God
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something --
and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity
for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
-- Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté