From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10605081352u1e93ff93rd6d6bed6125ce890@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:52:31 -0400 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive In-Reply-To: <090054c961a5151cabe817d1a3f724d6@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_8932_3715902.1147121551389" References: <283f5df10605080804y56b0124ence29c4bd6cfbc3cb@mail.gmail.com> <090054c961a5151cabe817d1a3f724d6@terzarima.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f65eea0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_8932_3715902.1147121551389 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 i= s 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 r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_8932_3715902.1147121551389 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline The problem was that autoconf didn't configure nor test conformity: it pass= ed along without warning that
I was missing some important thread crap = that changed betwixt versions it seems. So for the half
our conformity t= est/configuration, it still wouldn't actually tell me what was really missi= ng, 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 tel= l 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 pe= ople still think that `autoconf' is short for `autoconfigure'
when obvio= usly it means `autoconformity': it ensures that your system
conforms to the one system on which the software will compile and run w= ithout 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 h= im goes without saying and is "contructive and
radical". Nietz= sche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of crisis and a f= inal decision about the
problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and the= re is nothing final about it. Thus God
is useless, since He wants nothi= ng in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the tradi= tional
forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsib= lity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency
which would debase = the entire value of being born."
-- Albert Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt= =E9 ------=_Part_8932_3715902.1147121551389--