From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47A50832.7000801@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 19:17:54 -0500 From: Robert William Fuller User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071013) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... References: <0e742be69697735012d14c6319071fa1@terzarima.net> <5d375e920802020941k6f662ab1s3ac9a41d6d95bb66@mail.gmail.com> <20080202182756.GA862@shodan.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 40974322-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Juan M. Mendez wrote: > On 02/02/2008, Martin Neubauer wrote: >> * Uriel (uriel99@gmail.com) wrote: >>> Autotools badness is way beyond most peoples wildest imagination... >> Unfortunately, you don't have to imagine. > > So what are the facts to back up so many posts regarding autotools badness? > Just curious. An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell Labs reality distortion field. The syllogism goes something like this: All things not made at Bell Labs are bad GNU is not made at Bell Labs Therefore, GNU is bad